The reserve is located at CNOOC's deepwater Kaiping South
oilfield in the Pearl River Delta near Guangdong province, and contains light
crude, the statement said.
CNOOC has invested heavily in developing China's offshore
oil and gas reserves as part of a broader push to offset declining output from
aging onshore fields.
The company lifted its 2024 production target by about 8% to
a record 700 million to 720 million barrels of oil equivalent. Domestic
production, much of this offshore reserves in eastern China's Bohai Sea and the
South China Sea.