Energy Bureau Throws Out "Balance Theory" &Nbsp; &Nbsp; Denies "Gas Shortage Theory".

This year, domestic demand for natural gas is still strong. Gas shortage "Has become a controversial topic. The country expects natural gas shortage to last for at least two years. Energy Bureau Hu Weiping, deputy director of the oil and gas division, recently responded to "counter trend". It is expected that there will be no gas shortage in the whole country last year.

Supporting Hu Weiping Tight balance The reason is that by expanding import scale and increasing domestic exploitation, the total domestic gas supply will increase by about 20000000000 cubic meters this year. "I don't think there will be any shortage of gas and gas in the past year," he explained further. "At present, the shortage of gas supply in cities is rooted in the shortage of supply, the overall layout of the gas structure and the overall planning of the city."

In addition, the daily economic news reporter learned that, in order to completely alleviate the demand for natural gas in 10 years, including the opening of the third party access to the pipeline, the regulations on the construction and operation of natural gas infrastructure will be completed next year.

　 Confrontation: will there be a shortage of gas?

Last winter, a "gas shortage" sweeping across the country made all parties "nervous" about the use of natural gas this winter. "Daily economic news" reporter recently in the gas producing province of Inner Mongolia survey found that some gas stations in Inner Mongolia have queued 4~5 hours waiting for gas filling. A gas famine that swept the country again seemed inevitable in anticipation of all sides.

Yang Jianhong, deputy director of the central planning department of petroleum, said at the annual meeting of the 2010 China petroleum market recently held that the gas shortage in the central and southwest regions is still difficult to avoid for at least two years because the underground gas storage construction is lagging behind and unable to meet the demand for peak shaving.

Subject to the 3 year construction cycle of large-scale natural gas projects, besides the normal operation of natural gas from the west to east gas pipeline, the natural gas imported from China has not yet completed the spanition from "signing the gas supply contract" to "sending it to the residents' home".

For Yang Jianhong, referring to the "technical" gas shortage of natural gas, Hu Weiping said that by 2012, China's natural gas is a "tight balance" state. But with the experience of last year, the national energy board, on the basis of increasing the natural gas increment arrangement in Turkmenistan, made preparations for the purchase of liquefied natural gas spot earlier this year. This winter, this increment will enter the "gas spanmission army" in the west to east gas pipeline project. Therefore, Hu Weiping judged that this winter natural gas can guarantee supply under the "tight balance" state.

It is reported that CNOOC imported LNG total of 10 million tons this year, equivalent to 13 billion cubic meters. Coupled with the output of its own offshore gas fields, the total supply of natural gas reached 22 billion 700 million cubic meters, a 54% increase over last year, which will meet the 20% demand of domestic natural gas. {page_break}

　 The natural gas Management Ordinance will be completed next year.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, controlling inflation expectations has always been the focus of the NDRC's work. Similarly, the expectation of tight gas supply needs to be controlled.

It expects that the average monthly gas supply gap will reach 257 million cubic meters in the fourth quarter of this year, which is 8 million 570 thousand cubic meters per day.

Despite the fact that the diesel shortage is ahead this winter, Hu Weiping still believes that the national energy board can control natural gas expectations. According to the Energy Bureau's plan, CNOOC's liquefied natural gas will be spanferred from Shanghai to the mainland as a temporary emergency replacement through the gas pipeline from west to east gas pipeline.

Zhou Xiujie, an energy industry researcher at CIC, told reporters that due to the lack of sufficient attention to the development of the natural gas industry for a long time, the natural gas industry in China is relatively weak, and the natural gas spanmission and distribution network is not perfect enough. The resources of imported and domestic pipelines, such as natural gas, liquefied natural gas, coal and natural gas, have not been well allocated and utilized, resulting in a relatively confusing supply pattern.

At present, the supply of natural gas in most cities in China is in the current situation of "single gas source, single pipeline and no underground storage". In the spanport market, the natural monopoly characteristics of natural gas pipeline spanportation industry and the current government admission system are a major barrier to its development. In August this year, CNPC took the lead in opening up natural gas pipeline construction and operation to private capital in order to implement the new "36 states". According to the insiders of the Energy Bureau, the regulations on the construction and operation of natural gas infrastructure will be completed next year after releasing the third party access to pipeline construction.

In addition, in an interview with China energy newspaper, Hu Weiping also said that two special plans on natural gas -- the layout of the national natural gas network and the "12th Five-Year development plan" and "LNG" 12th Five-Year special plan "are expected to be completed in the first half of next year. At the same time, the energy bureau is now working on the ten year plan for the construction of natural gas reserve and peak shaving capacity.