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National Energy Administration: Apparent consumption of natural gas has returned to double-digit growth this year
With the increase of air pollution control, the “coal to gas†in the north is also accelerating. This undoubtedly opens up a sunny skylight to the natural gas market, but it also brings new challenges to the balance between supply and demand. At the “2017 Deep Sea Energy Conference†held last week, Liu Deshun, director of the Oil and Gas Department of the National Energy Administration, predicted that the apparent consumption of natural gas this year will return to double-digit growth since 2014. In the industry's view, this is a sign of major changes in the natural gas market. The consumption of natural gas has risen steadily . Since the beginning of this year, natural gas consumption has rebounded significantly due to factors such as the stabilization of the macro economy, low gas prices, adequate supply, increased prevention and control of atmospheric pollution, clean heating in the north, and centralized policy support. The growth rate has been faster since the winter. We expect the domestic consumption of natural gas in 2017 to be conservatively estimated at more than 230 billion cubic meters, or even reach 240 billion cubic meters. It has returned to double-digit growth since 2014.†Liu Deshun Say. He said that this year's explosive growth of natural gas was not expected by many people. Both PetroChina and CNOOC had previously felt that natural gas had sales difficulties. Recently, however, localities have begun to demand an expansion of natural gas supply. According to him, the previous 13th Five-Year Plan was when China’s natural gas demand was not strong. The industry was not very optimistic about natural gas consumption. Therefore, the forecast at that time was to see natural gas accounted for 8.3% by 2020. The point of view is to reach 10%. “If it reaches 10%, it means that natural gas consumption will be close to 360 billion cubic meters by 2020, which means that it will increase by 30 billion cubic meters per year, and the gasification population will increase from the current 400 million to 470 million.†Liu Deshun said . In fact, with the rapid recovery of natural gas consumption this year, the highly market-oriented LNG price has risen continuously as a sensitive signal. In the future, it will speed up the construction of natural gas infrastructure. However, Liu Deshun also reminded reporters that China's natural gas infrastructure is still a relatively weak link. According to him, the gas storage capacity of developed countries in Europe and America can reach 12% of natural gas consumption, but China's current level is only 3%. With the gradual increase in gas storage capacity construction, China will achieve an underground gas storage capacity of 14.8 billion cubic meters by 2020. This is also the only binding indicator in the development goals of the 13th Five-Year Plan for natural gas. Specific to the key tasks identified in the natural gas plan, he said that the first is to strengthen exploration and development, increase domestic resource supply, and achieve domestic natural gas production of 207 billion cubic meters by 2020. While strengthening the development of conventional natural gas, it is also necessary to add exploration and development of low-grade and unconventional natural gas such as roughly dense gas, shale gas and coalbed methane. In 2020, we will strive to achieve an annual output of 30 billion cubic meters of shale gas. The production of layer gas is 10 billion cubic meters. Secondly, he said that it is necessary to speed up the construction of natural gas pipeline networks, improve the four major import channels in the northwest, northeast, southwest and sea, strengthen the construction of domestic trunk lines and regional pipelines, and vigorously promote the interconnection of pipelines. During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan†period, 40,000 kilometers of natural gas trunks and supporting pipelines will be built. The total mileage will reach 104,000 kilometers in 2020, and the trunk gas transmission capacity will exceed 400 billion cubic meters per year. The third task is to speed up the construction of gas storage facilities and improve the capacity of peak storage. Liu Deshun revealed that in addition to increasing the expansion and reconstruction of underground gas storage, the LNG receiving station will be developed in an orderly manner, speeding up the establishment and improvement of urban emergency gas storage peaking facilities, and encouraging multiple entities to participate in gas storage capacity building. "Finally, we must cultivate the natural gas market and promote efficient use." Liu Deshun said.