Till June 30, Hudson Oilfield in Tarim Basin in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has become the largest oilfield in desert with a daily output of over 4, 440 tons and a annual capacity of 1.5 million tons of crude oil, as learned by People's Daily on July 4.

Hudson Oilfield, located in the heart of Taklimakan Desert, is hard to exploit. The Tarim Oilfield Company under PetroChina Company Limited exploited the oilfield with new technologies and techniques thus succeeded in constantly raising the oil output: 810, 000 tons in 2002, 1.1 million tons in 2003.

As one of the six million-ton desert oilfields, Hudson Oilfield will produce 1.5 million tons in 2004.

By People's Daily Online