The Origin Energy company in Australia found a super shale gas field in Beetaloo Basin in northern Australia; during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China's nuclear industry will complete nine important tasks.

（2017/2/21-2017/2/27）

Review of International Energy News
◆The Origin Energy company in Australia found a super shale gas field in Beetaloo Basin in northern Australia, with natural gas reserves reaching 82 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
◆The National V emission standard is being implemented in China.The improvement of oil standard provides a huge business opportunity to the old European chemical giant Clariant.

◆US Republican congressman announced a proposal to impose carbon tax, which calls for a tax of 40 dollars per ton of carbon emissions and a steady increase in tax rates each year.

Review of Domestic Energy News
◆During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China's nuclear industry will complete nine important tasks, including the development of national defense industry, civil nuclear energy and etc, to solve the long-term bottleneck in development of nuclear industry.
◆In 2016, the national coal consumption continued to decline.After two consecutive years of growth, the society coal reserve also saw the first decline this year. It is expected that some small coal enterprises will work 276 days per year.
◆China’s Energy Administration launched a wind power investment monitoring and early warning: 6 provinces shall not be allowed to increase investment in the scale of wind power construction in 2017.