Kunlun Energy Limited, formerly CNPC (Hong Kong) Limited, became a Hong Kong- listed company in 1993 through a

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. Its parent company is the China National Petroleum Corporation which itself was created from the transformation of the Ministry of

Petroleum Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...

Industry in the

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in 1988. It is engaged in the investment of

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, development and production of

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and

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in China,

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and

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