Chongqing sings about shale gas mining and commercial drama

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News: In order to give full play to the role of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Yangtze River Economic Belt construction of important strategic support, through supporting the development of strategic emerging industries to achieve the transformation and upgrading of Chongqing's old industrial base, this year's National "two sessions", members of the CPPCC from Chongqing put forward a collective proposal: to support Chongqing to build a national shale gas development and utilization of integrated demonstration zone.
In fact, as Shale gas extraction in Chongqing enters the era of scale, shale gas has become a strategic emerging industry in Chongqing, including shale gas exploration and development, comprehensive utilization, equipment manufacturing, natural gas chemical industry clusters, etc. According to statistics, in 2014, the production capacity of the coking rock shale gas in Chongqing reached 2.5 billion cubic meters, with a cumulative gas production of more than 1.2 billion cubic meters. The city's shale gas production capacity is expected to reach 30 billion cubic meters by 2020, with a production capacity of 20 billion cubic meters, accounting for more than two-thirds of the country's total shale gas production.
Soever to achieve large-scale commercial development
Since 2009, China's oil enterprises began to dabble in the development of shale gas, after years of exploration and breakthrough, in the past year has basically achieved the localization of core technical equipment, and entered the initial stage of large-scale development.
January 29 this year, the Executive Meeting of the Chongqing Municipal Government considered and adopted the Chongqing Shale Gas Industry Development Plan (2015-2020), proposing that shale gas production capacity of 15 billion cubic meters and production of 10 billion cubic meters will be achieved within two years; Within five years, we will achieve the target of 30 billion cubic meters of shale gas production capacity and 20 billion cubic meters of production, and build Chongqing into a national comprehensive demonstration area for shale gas exploration and development, comprehensive utilization, equipment manufacturing and ecological environment protection.
2009, Chongqing took the lead in launching the country's first shale gas resources exploration project, which was listed by the Ministry of Land and Resources as the national shale gas resources exploration pilot area. In November 2012, Sinopec drilled high-yield shale airflow at the 1HF well on the 1HF in Lingling. Zhang Hong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Chongqing Municipal Forestry Bureau, said that the Chongqing natural gas pipeline network system is relatively complete, the national backbone network and the Chongqing backbone branch network interconnected, and the Chongqing backbone network has basically formed a more perfect set, transmission, storage, distribution of four-stage natural gas pipeline network system, transmission and distribution capacity of 36 million cubic meters / day, for large-scale shale gas transmission and application laid the foundation. At the same time, with most of the domestic and foreign natural gas chemical technology has been industrialized, the full use of shale gas has obvious advantages. On the other hand, Chongqing is one of the old industrial bases in China, the equipment manufacturing industry is a traditional advantageous industry and pillar industry, has formed a complete range of industrial bases with a certain scale and level, with the development of drilling, well equipment, instrumentation, LNG equipment, water treatment and other shale gas industry equipment basic conditions.
is significant
international oil prices have been "falling and falling" for nearly a year, and it is widely believed that "the main reason is shale gas developers in North Dakota and Texas". When people link the fall in oil prices to the development of shale gas, one can't help but wonder: Is this just a coincidence or an inevitable trend?
Fengqi, a senior adviser at the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said there were various "conspiracy theories" circulating, but these were not mainstream and the fall in oil prices followed objective economic rules.
The view of more industry insiders is that the cost and price of shale gas should be regarded as a normal commercial risk, although the extraction technology is not perfect, immature, but the subversive significance of shale gas itself can not be ignored - "Shale gas not only shakes the traditional dominant organic generation theology in the field of oil and gas, for the future oil and gas production to open up a broader field, but also impact the global inherent energy economy and political map, making oil and gas a richer and more evenly distributed resources."
china's demand for oil will double again in the next 20 years, gas consumption will more than double and China's total energy consumption will increase by 70 per cent, according to a survey. Shale gas will strive to dock and meet the country's strong domestic industrial and civil energy needs as soon as possible. Chongqing will be the first to sing about shale gas mining and commercial production in China.
If the shale gas extraction target is achieved, China's natural gas self-se ratio is expected to increase to 60% to 70%, and natural gas in China's total energy consumption to increase to about 8%. This will help to reverse China's over-reliance on coal energy structure, and reduce the external dependence of energy. In this process, Chongqing undoubtedly shouldered a heavy responsibility.
, director of the energy department of Chongqing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, explains the significance of the development of shale gas in this way: First, to reduce the external dependence of China's oil and gas resources; Second, clean energy is of great significance to the city haze control of the whole country. Third, shale gas is an industry with large investment, high output, high added value and long industrial chain, and has the potential to become an important factor in China's steady growth. Fourth, energy costs and prices can be reduced to promote social consumption.
Still need to move forward
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,' said Pan Fusheng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Chongqing Academy of Sciences, although the conditions for large-scale development and utilization of shale gas in Chongqing are better, but the overall exploration and development is still in its early stages, lack of technical force, comprehensive utilization is facing greater cost pressure, the effective development progress of enterprises is insufficient, shale gas industrialization, cluster development is facing greater challenges.
At the "two sessions" of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Chongqing, the CPPCC members put forward a collective proposal, hoping that the state will support Chongqing to extend the industrial chain, lay out major shale gas-related projects in Chongqing, and support Chongqing to form shale gas exploration and development, pipeline construction, vehicle and ship applications, chemical industry, equipment manufacturing and other industrial clusters, making it an important growth point of Chongqing's economy.
" China and the United States in the development of shale gas industry, China's mining technology has made great progress in recent years, the cost of a single well has been reduced to about 50 million to 70 million yuan, coupled with the Ministry of Finance subsidies, these are conducive to the overall development of the shale gas industry in Chongqing. Sinopec's Sichuan oil branch said.
will become the largest country in energy consumption growth, and fossil fuels will remain the theme of China's energy in the next 20 years, with the share of coal slowly declining and the proportion of natural gas rising, Said Wang Zuxun. A clear policy signal is that the space for shale gas development in Chongqing, from equipment to mining and commercial use, will remain in line with the overall direction over the next few years. Although domestic shale gas production has increased significantly in recent years, the proportion of the country's total natural gas production is not large. "This shows that, on the one hand, the impact of falling international oil prices on China's shale gas is very limited, on the other hand, There is still a lot of room for Chongqing to develop the shale gas industry." Wang Zuxun said.
In fact, under the environmental pressure of the city's need for clean air, coal use restrictions are inevitable, natural gas is relatively clean, the trend of favor is inevitable, coupled with the Middle East oil-rich region has been unstable political situation, for the oil supply shortage, many energy importers will naturally turn their attention to local shale gas exploration, this major shift will also have a major ripple effect in other energy markets. In other words, China will shift from looking at faces to controlling discourse in such a shift.