The Bazhong Gas Field is located in Bazhong City, Sichuan Province.

Bazhong City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, also known as Bacheng, is located in the northeast of the Sichuan Basin. It is located at the southern foot of Micang Mountain in the Daba Mountains, south of the "Qinling-Huaihe" north-south dividing line and east of Dazhou City borders Nanchong City to the south, Guangyuan City to the west, and Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province to the north. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, sloping from north to south. The city has a total area of ??12,300 square kilometers and governs 2 districts and 3 counties.

The Bazhong Gas Field is a gas field with Xujiahe Formation tight sandstone as the main target layer. The burial depth is 4550 meters to 5225 meters. It is a typical ultra-deep tight sandstone gas reservoir. The sandstone burial depth is large and difficult to explore. Development is difficult. The proven gas-bearing area exceeds 810,000 square meters, and the effective thickness of the reservoir reaches 29 meters. Nine wells have been drilled, 8 of which have obtained industrial oil and gas flows.

On August 21, 2023, Sinopec announced that a breakthrough was made in the exploration of the Bazhong Gas Field, with the first phase of proven natural gas geological reserves of 30.55 billion cubic meters, marking the addition of a large field with tens of billions of reserves in southwest China. .

Folk art in Bazhong City:

1. The language of Bazhong City is mainly the typical Tujia language, such as Lian Erzhan, Inverted Guaizi, Dezhibazi, and Pupai. Somersault and so on. There are many folk literatures circulated in Bazhong, typical representatives include the folk legends "Wu Yaogu", "Lu Ban", "Zhao Qiao", "Prince Zhang Huai", "Beheading the Ba Snake", "Zhao Qiong Yao's Four Journeys to Henan", etc.; the folk tales "The Changgong and the Landlord" "Stories", "Inhuman Stories"; folk narrative poems "Shiliping", "Moonset in the West", etc.

2. Bazhong City has many traditional arts, calligraphy, music, dance, drama, folk arts, acrobatics and other categories. Paintings include New Year pictures, prints, murals, custom paintings, religious paintings, etc.; sculptures include stone carvings, wood carvings, bone carvings, bamboo carvings, leather carvings, etc.; crafts include embroidery, weaving and dyeing, paper binding, sugar sculpture, weaving, etc.

3. Music includes folk songs, chants, minor tunes, wind instruments, string instruments, percussion, etc.; dances include seasonal dances, ceremonial dances, religious dances, etc.; folk arts include storytelling, rap, voiceless music, and dulcimer. etc.; dramas include Sichuan Opera, Nuo opera, lantern opera, etc.; acrobatics include ancient colorful tricks such as ascending a mountain of knives, descending into a sea of ??fire, rolling a pan of oil, etc.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bazhong City