China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), parent company of PetroChina, said on April 26 that its oil and gas output would reach 300 million tonnes of oil equivalent a year by 2020.
CNPC's domestic oil refining capacity will be capped at around 200 million tonnes a year by 2020, it said in its online company newspaper.
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