Accelerate the construction of 100 billion natural gas production capacity base to build China's "gas Daqing"

On the morning of May 28, 2019, a special seminar titled "Development Countermeasures of Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company" was held. At the meeting, experts and scholars from domestic oil and gas fields sat together to discuss the exploration and development of conventional and unconventional gas in the Sichuan Basin.

"The Sichuan Basin is rich in resources and needs to plan ahead and speed up the construction of China's 'Southwest gas Daqing'." The voice of Zou Caineng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, made the participants feel fresh and fresh. It is precisely because of this sound that a realistic and lofty picture of China's "gas Daqing" is slowly opened...

Less than two years later, in 2021, the Sichuan Provincial government work report appeared the "figure" of China's "gas Daqing"; In March 2021, Peng Qinghua, secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, once again emphasized that it is necessary to further promote the construction of "gas Daqing" as a strategic task concerning the overall situation.

So what does China's "Qi Daqing" look like? What are the prospects? Under the support of a series of policies, how will it be promoted? In response to a series of issues that people are concerned about, we try to find the answer to China's "Qi Daqing".

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Sichuan Basin has "bottom gas"

Sichuan Basin is located in southwest China, including the central and eastern part of Sichuan Province and most of Chongqing.

The resource evaluation of the Ministry of Natural Resources shows that the Sichuan Basin is rich in natural gas resources, with a total resource of 66 trillion cubic meters, about equal to the sum of the natural gas resources of Ordos, Tarim and Qaidam three basins. The proved reserves of 6.17 trillion cubic meters, with a proved rate of only 9.3%, are the most potential natural gas exploration and development basins in China.

Up to now, a total of 189 oil and gas fields and oil-bearing structures have been discovered in the Sichuan Basin, and the natural gas output accounts for about 1/4 of the national output, supporting Sichuan and Chongqing to become the regions with the widest gas use range and the highest gas rate in China.

At the same time, according to the statistics of petrochina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company and Sinopec Petroleum Exploration and Development Research Institute, the natural gas production of Sichuan Basin in 2020 exceeded 55 billion cubic meters, and the natural gas production growth of Southwest Oil and Gas Field company accounted for 1/3 of the national growth.

The "China Natural Gas Development Report" (2019) pointed out that in the future, we will make every effort to build a natural gas production base in the Sichuan Basin. By increasing the development of deep gas, tight gas and shale gas, the natural gas production in Sichuan Basin will account for about 1/3 of the total domestic output in the future, and become the "southwest growth pole" for the development of China's natural gas industry.

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Sichuan and Chongqing jointly build "gas Daqing"

In 2019, the National Energy Administration started the preparation of a special plan for the construction of 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas capacity in the Sichuan Basin - striving to reach 63 billion cubic meters of natural gas (shale gas) production in Sichuan and Chongqing by 2025; By 2035, China's first 100-billion-level natural gas production base will be built.

By 2020, the Outline of the Construction Plan for the Shuangcheng Economic Circle in Chengdu-Chongqing Region and its implementation opinions are clear, and the Sichuan-Chongqing region will comprehensively promote the development of oil and gas resources, build a national demonstration zone for comprehensive development and utilization of natural gas and a production capacity base of 100 billion square meters of natural gas, and build China's "gas Daqing".

On July 14, 2020, the Development and Reform commissions and energy Bureau of Sichuan and Chongqing officially signed the "High-quality Development Cooperation Agreement on Jointly Promoting Energy Integration in the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle" in Chongqing, which is the first time that the energy authorities of Sichuan and Chongqing signed a cooperation agreement.

From December 2020 to March 2021, Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality successively issued the 14th Five-Year Plan for national economic and social Development and the outline of the 2035 vision goals, once again strengthening the building of China's "gas Daqing".

The release of a series of strategic plans has ushered in unprecedented historic opportunities for major oil and gas fields located in the Sichuan Basin.

Today, Sichuan and Chongqing are focusing on the overall situation in the Sichuan Basin, coordinating major oil and gas fields, and 20 major energy projects with a planned total investment of nearly 990 billion yuan are accelerating their landing. Among them, 710 billion yuan of investment funds will be used for the natural gas development in the Sichuan and Chongqing region, aiming to promote the Sichuan Basin to build a production capacity base of 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas (about 80 million tons of oil and gas equivalent), which means that the Sichuan Basin will continue to refresh the domestic natural gas production capacity record.