The main task of China's energy planning and measures have been introduced, from the perspective has disclosed the content of the files, from 2016 to 2020 domestic natural gas market demand will be improved significantly. As the reform further, many infrastructure projects will be built. "Is expected to 2020, the domestic gas consumption will reach 350 billion cubic meters, average annual growth rate of 13%, accounting for the proportion of primary energy consumption by 9.6%. At the same time, the four, five line of west-east gas is expected to start, gas pipeline between China and Russia continue to push forward the eastern construction, construction of the west, the discussion of sinopec coal gas transmission pipeline project will also work, during the above is' much starker choices-and graver consequences-in key task for the construction of gas pipeline." Zhuo Liu Guangbin information analyst, "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" period, the gas will be given to actively promote market-oriented reform, related infrastructure projects will be fair and open to a third party, the corresponding peak shaving cost compensation mechanism will be introduced, interruptible price scientific price system is expected to launch.

Price reform and accelerating

The reporter understands, a few days ago, the Shanxi Province development and reform commission issued a "about promoting marketization reform to strengthen local natural gas distribution price regulatory notice, designed to reduce part of the city with high gas prices, promote the reform of marketization of natural gas. "To reduce the high city with gas prices, the city gas pipelines with gas prices and sales management delegation to various cities, county. Price departments at all levels on the basis of clarifying city gas enterprise marketing spreads, conduct cost whose, residents in keeping with gas under the premise of price stability, reduce the high non-resident with gas prices, can properly reduce the burden of non-resident gas." Zhuo gen XiJing information analyst, and according to zhuo information and data statistics, apparent consumption of 7 billion cubic meters of natural gas in Shanxi Province in 2016, in 2015, an increase of 1.3 billion cubic meters, compared to the lower high city with gas prices is beneficial to improve the local gas consumption accounted for. In addition, include the liberalisation of compressed natural gas (CNG) sales price, also will be good for CNG vehicle in the field of natural gas market development, to promote natural gas price marketization reform process.

Sales management system reform further

According to analysts zhao-hui liu zhuo and information, China petroleum and natural gas selling the south branch had started operation on January 1, 2017, became the first officially put into operation area of the China petroleum and natural gas sales branch, China petroleum and natural gas selling a big step in the material management system reform. "In response to the country to promote infrastructure fair and open market subject to a third party, network apart, lose pin separation, the establishment of open, fair, transparent, natural gas market demand, in late November 2016, petrochina internal meetings to determine its specific arrangement of each pipe sales company marketing separation, decided to set up a separate gas sales branch, set up north, south, east, west, southwest five regional sales company, this is up and running of the south branch is oil take the first step to implement the decision." Zhao-hui liu said.

According to understand, China petroleum and natural gas selling gas sales company responsible for the west of the southern branch in east section of the second line of west-east gas, zhong wu line sales organization based on form, is mainly responsible for guangdong, hubei, hunan, jiangxi, hainan province and the Hong Kong special administrative region of natural gas sales, currently has 113 downstream users, sales volume is expected to about 10.7 billion cubic meters in 2016.

Around zhao-hui liu believes that, in accordance with the relevant planning, during the period of "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in", the south branch is responsible for these areas will expand the scale of the use of natural gas, we need to greatly improve the gas consumption, including further expanding natural gas power generation, industry and residents gases, such as larger sales growth potential in the future of the south branch.