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Zhongman Petroleum and Natural Gas Group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ55638182 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Zhongman Petroleum and Natural Gas Group (or ZPEC) is a Chinese oilfield services company.

History

The company was founded in 2003. The company received backing from Sequoia Capital.

Reuters in December 2017 reported the company was in talks with Gazprom Neft to take a stake in the Chonsk oil fields development project in Siberia.

Projects

Iraq - Awarded by Iraqi government a $526.6 million drilling deal for drilling of 66 production oil wells at the West Qurna Two oilfield

Pakistan - Awarded by Pakistan Petroleum a US$23 million drilling project in Pakistan in 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zhongman Petroleum and Natural Gas Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.