OPE at 71% totals some 409 bcm and is principally domestic production, pipeline and LNG imports in China, LNG imports together with domestic production in India, and LNG imports and domestic production in Pakistan where the regulator sets natural gas wellhead prices but linked to the oil price. GOG at 16%, some 92 bcm, is largely spot LNG imports into India,
China and Pakistan and domestic production in China, reflecting the direct sales of coalbed methane at market prices from upstream producers to large users in power and industry. RCS accounts for some 13%, totalling around 52 bcm of domestic production in China with around 21 bcm in Bangladesh.
