China increased oil and natural gas production in January-August 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to data from the country’s National Bureau of Statistics.
Official figures show that oil output reached 146.39 million tons in the first eight months of the year, up 0.9% year on year. Over the same period, oil processing totaled 456.12 million tons, down 6.6%.
In August alone, oil production rose to 18.43 million tons, marking a 0.8% increase from August 2025. At the same time, oil processing fell 6.9% year on year to 59.07 million tons.
Natural gas production in the first eight months of 2026 increased 1.1% to 175.7 billion cubic meters. In August, the figure was up 0.8% from a year earlier at 21.4 billion cubic meters.
Coal output, however, moved in the opposite direction. In January-August, production declined 3.3% year on year to 3.06 billion tons, while August output dropped 7.7% to 360 million tons.
For comparison, in full-year 2025 China increased oil production by 1.5% to 216.05 million tons and natural gas production by 6.2% to 261.9 billion cubic meters. Earlier statistics bureau data showed coal production had risen 41.2% in 2025 to 4.83 billion tons.
