CNPC stepping up natural gas supply

China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer, yesterday said it is supplying record volumes of natural gas to meet rising demand triggered by falling temperatures.

The company's daily gas supply has reached nearly 200 million cu m since November, as cold weather increases heating demand, it said in a statement on its website yesterday.

Heating gas consumption in Beijing saw an increase of 9 million cu m from a year earlier on Nov 18, up by 57 percent. Gas consumption in northern China exceeded 60 million cu m, said the statement.