Chinese accelerate the exploration and development of shale gas imminent

Rock gas A new force suddenly rises. in unconventional natural gas has become a new bright spot in the development of global oil and gas resources exploration, and gradually to the evolution of the full range of the world's major resources, China has increased the intensity of shale gas exploration and development. To speed up the development of shale gas has strategic significance for Chinese, shale gas once the large-scale mining, not only may change the pattern of energy supply in China, and will help to improve the negotiation of foreign energy China's discourse power and influence, also can spur the development of domestic iron and steel, chemicals, cement, construction, equipment manufacturing and other related fields and industry.

First, energy security and ease the gas supply pressure is required to develop shale gas. A period of the current and future long period, China's economic development the demand for energy resources will increase, while the domestic energy supply and demand tension has been facing the worsening of environment and the increasing pressure. Based on the domestic market, increase exploration and development and application of clean and low carbon energy - shale gas dynamics will be to alleviate the supply of energy resources shortage in our country, the important strategic choice to realize the diversification of energy supply, has an important strategic significance to ensure national energy security.

 
First, China's dependence on foreign oil and coal increased year by year, energy supply security has risen as a national energy security. In recent years, China's energy consumption demand increasing, foreign energy dependence is rising year by year. With coal as an example, after our country following the 2009 first became a net importer of coal, and in 2010 a net importer of coal of about 1.46 tons, an increase of nearly 41%; in the crude oil, about 2.39 tonnes in 2010 China's imports of crude oil, raw oil on external dependence reached 53.8%, an increase of 2.5 percentage points in 2009 than the 51.3%. In fact, from the beginning of 2006, China dependence on foreign oil by an average annual rate of increase of 2.9 percentage point, if the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period still maintain this speed, is expected in 2015 China's dependence on foreign oil will exceed 65%. A large number of long-term imports of oil and gas resources will make the social political and economic risks facing China continues to increase, energy security has risen as a national security issue.

Second, China's natural gas supply and demand gap increased year by year, to the exploration and development of shale gas and other unconventional natural gas as a supplement. In recent years, with China's sustained and rapid economic development, natural gas consumption and domestic demand growth has more than coal and oil, natural gas supply and demand contradiction prominent, especially short-term supply and demand imbalance, has affected the city gas supply security and the improvement of people's living environment, hinder the development of natural gas industry. The apparent consumption of production plus net imports of natural gas in China in 2010, reached 107030000000 cubic meters, the import volume reached 16610000000 cubic meters, the foreign dependency rate reached 11.7%; the first half of 2011, China's natural gas foreign degree of dependency is already more than 30%, increasing the gap between supply and demand will bring great pressure to the natural gas yield. Shale gas is an important complement to natural gas, to ease the contradiction between supply and demand of natural gas and is of importance to guarantee the national energy security, and will help enhance China's discourse power in the international trade of natural gas.

Secondly, the adjustment of energy structure and promote energy-saving emission reduction to speed up the development of shale gas. China's coal, oil and other fossil fuel based energy structure leads to greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution emissions increase, resulting in our country is facing the huge international pressure and domestic challenges in environmental protection, climate change. "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period in China is the key stage in 2020 to implement the non fossil energy accounted for 15%, the unit G D P carbon dioxide emissions than in 2005 decreased the 40%-45% commitments, China must vigorously develop natural gas, nuclear power, renewable and clean energy in order to optimize the energy structure. But in the current international nuclear public safety highlights, domestic renewable energy grid resistance of the environment, our country is facing the most realistic option is to speed up the development of shale gas and other unconventional natural gas resources, effectively increasing the natural gas in the proportion of energy supply in china.