The clean energy system at the Xinli oil extraction plant sector III of Northeast China's Jilin oil field under the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has recently entered official operations, marking China realizing zero carbon emissions in crude oil extraction, CNPC said on Tuesday.

A representative from the Jilin oil field Ma Xiaoguang said the sector uses 100 percent of clean electricity from self-built wind and photovoltaic power generators. The heating power of the sector is collected from geothermal, solar power and air heat pump, which can save 600,000 cubic meters of natural gas each year.

In addition, the rest of carbon emission generated by burning fossil energy source is captured and stored, in order to realize carbon neutrality across all the oil extraction phases, according to CNPC.

The construction of the new energy system began on the four oil extraction platforms of the Jinlin oil filed in March this year. Integrating various types of new energy forms of wind, photovoltaic and geothermal, Jinlin oil filed reused wasted engineering facilities, land resources, and built an effective clean energy utility system.

According to CNPC, the oil extraction plant is the largest zero carbon emission oil plant in Asia, demonstrating great progress in achieving country's goal of carbon emission reduction.