Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China plans to produce 6.5 billion cubic meters of shale gas in 2015, the nation’s biggest energy company said.

The country plans to produce 21 billion cubic meters of coal-bed methane in 2015, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. said in its annual report on the oil and gas industry released today.

--Chua Baizhen

To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Chua Baizhen in Beijing at bchua14@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Ryan Woo at rwoo5@bloomberg.net