Explosive growth in natural gas consumption related compressor market opportunities soar
Date: 2017-09-04 Source: China Compressor Network View: 20275
Core Tip: Compressor as a core equipment in the natural gas production process, which is widely used in gas field development in the drainage of gas extraction, gas collection and processing, pressurization into the natural gas pipeline network, pipeline pressurization and transmission and underground storage and other fields. From the average annual growth rate of about 6 in the past two years, to the first half of this year, more than 15 of the high speed growth, China's natural gas consumption to realize a magnificent turn. With the environmental awareness, coal to gas, natural gas distributed utilization and other applications continue to deepen, China's natural gas consumption is accelerating into the vast blue ocean. Accordingly, the growth of natural gas demand will drive the rapid development of natural gas compressor equipment market. Natural gas consumption presents
Compressor, as a core equipment in the natural gas production process, is widely used in gas field development in the drainage of gas extraction, gas collection and processing, pressurization into the natural gas pipeline network, pipeline pressurization and transmission and underground storage and other fields.
From the average annual growth rate of about 6% in the past two years, to the first half of this year more than 15% of the high speed growth, China's natural gas consumption to achieve a magnificent turnaround. With the environmental awareness, coal to gas, natural gas distributed utilization and other applications continue to deepen, China's natural gas consumption is accelerating into the vast blue ocean. Accordingly, the growth of natural gas demand will drive the rapid development of natural gas compressor equipment market.
Natural gas consumption shows explosive growth
China's urban population growth will inevitably lead to the continued expansion of energy demand. In this context, natural gas, as an efficient, low-carbon energy source, will be the appropriate choice to solve China's energy problems*.
As a low-carbon energy source, natural gas is cleaner and more efficient compared to fossil energy sources such as coal and oil; compared to renewable energy sources, natural gas as an energy supply is more stable and the model is more mature. ; During the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of China's natural gas consumption was 12.4%. Natural gas industry to achieve leapfrog development, annual output jumped to the world's sixth, in the primary energy consumption structure from 3% to 6%. It is expected that by the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan, the proportion of natural gas in the primary energy consumption structure will increase to 8.3% to 10%.
However, in the past two years, the development of China's natural gas consumption market has encountered ups and downs. Impacted by low oil prices, low coal prices and other substitution effects, in 2015, China's natural gas consumption growth rate once fell to a ten-year low, year-on-year growth of 5.7%, and in 2016, year-on-year growth of 6.6%.
This year, China's natural gas consumption has shown explosive growth. The National Development and Reform Commission* newly released data show that in the first half of 2017, China's natural gas consumption of 114.6 billion cubic meters, up 15.2% year-on-year.
The release of the policy has also created conditions for the future use of natural gas. The website of the National Development and Reform Commission has recently released to the public the Opinions on Promoting the Utilization of Natural Gas, which proposes to accelerate the large-scale, efficient and scientific utilization of natural gas in town gas, industrial fuel, gas power generation, transportation and other fields.
Opinions clear, gradually cultivate natural gas as one of the main energy sources of China's modern clean energy system, by 2020, natural gas in the primary energy consumption structure of the proportion strive to reach about 10%, the formation of underground gas storage reservoirs effective working gas volume of 14.8 billion cubic meters.
At the same time, the natural gas system reform will be pushed forward, efforts will be made to crack the system and mechanism obstacles affecting the healthy development of the natural gas industry, and the decisive role of the market in the allocation of natural gas resources will be brought into full play. It will liberalize competitive links in an orderly manner, encourage all kinds of capital to enter the field of natural gas infrastructure construction and utilization, and accelerate the marketization of natural gas prices.
Clean winter heating in the northern region, industrial and civil; coal gas conversion, natural gas peaking power generation, natural gas distributed, natural gas vehicles and ships as a priority. Emphasize the coordination of the upstream, midstream and downstream of the natural gas industry chain, and build a coordinated development of the industry chain from the development of gas fields, international trade, receiving station transfer, pipeline transmission and distribution, gas storage and peaking, current futures trading to terminal utilization of all links, and do a good job of balancing supply and demand and peaking emergencies, mainly by market-oriented means. All links should strive to reduce costs, to ensure that end-users get the benefits, and enhance the competitiveness of natural gas.
Coal to gas effect is gradually apparent
Experts believe that this year, China's natural gas consumption growth, on the one hand, thanks to the steady improvement in the economic situation, on the other hand, it shows that the effect of coal to gas gradually appeared.
Shanghai oil and natural gas trading center, deputy general manager Fu Shaohua said, economic growth on the overall natural gas supply and demand situation is the first place. Since the beginning of this year, the steady recovery of the economy has led to an overall rebound in gas demand. At the same time, the national policy of regulating coal power landing, some areas of gas demand for power generation to accelerate growth. In addition, social awareness of environmental protection continues to improve so that low-carbon and clean natural gas is more widely used.
In order to speed up the control of air pollution, in recent years, many places in China vigorously promote the coal-to-gas project. Gas to coal projects are being rolled out across the country, and the projects that have been implemented are playing a role. China University of Petroleum Professor Liu Yijun said, coal-to-gas projects from the start of implementation to the landing needs a time cycle, and now the effect has been initially apparent. Driven by the demand for coal-to-gas conversion, natural gas demand in Hebei has increased by more than 20% year-on-year since the beginning of this year.
Natural gas demand has heated up significantly, sales companies feel close to the heart. The eastern region of China has always been a natural gas demand plateau. The market area of PetroChina Natural Gas Sales East Company covers five provinces and one city in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang, etc., with a market share of about 65.4%, and the annual sales of natural gas in PetroChina accounted for more than 1/4. In the first half of this year, PetroChina Natural Gas Sales East Company sold a total of 19.865 billion cubic meters of natural gas, an increase of 20.4% year-on-year, and accomplished 56.3% of the annual sales target. 56.3%.
Wang Dohong, deputy general manager of PetroChina Natural Gas Sales East Company, said that since the beginning of this year, the company has actively cooperated with localities to promote coal-to-gas conversion projects, and actively promoted direct gas supply projects for large users. In the first half of the direct supply of natural gas to power plants in Jiangsu region increased by 535 million cubic meters year-on-year, an increase of 62.6%; thermal power plant natural gas consumption increased by 606 million cubic meters year-on-year, an increase of 39.3%.
At present, China's natural gas in the primary energy structure accounted for about 7%, far below the international average. According to the development goal, by 2020, natural gas will strive to reach about 10% in the primary energy consumption structure, and by 2030, it will strive to increase to about 15%.
In recent years, China's energy-saving and energy-efficiency technologies have continued to progress, and the efficiency of natural gas utilization has increased significantly. Relying on traditional methods, the comprehensive utilization rate of natural gas is only 35%, and the natural gas distributed cooling, heating and power cogeneration systems used in Shanghai Disneyland and Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center can increase the comprehensive utilization efficiency of natural gas to 85.9% and 88.42% respectively.
; With the emergence of various innovative application modes, the spring of natural gas consumption has arrived. Wang Dohong said. Coal to gas, natural gas power generation and natural gas distributed cooling, heating and power supply and other application modes continue to deepen, will promote China's natural gas consumption market to further upgrade. The company's market coverage; five provinces and one city put forward the natural gas development plan, the total natural gas consumption in 2020 will reach 111 billion cubic meters, an increase of 114% over 2016, which can be seen in the future of the market outlook is very broad.
Natural gas compressor market opportunities to increase
From the national energy strategy and other aspects, vigorously promote the development of the natural gas industry is imperative, and breakthroughs in the manufacturing process of its related equipment is an important task for China's industrial production in the next period of time.
At present, drainage gas extraction and gas collection and processing areas, domestic complete sets of compressor sets can meet the domestic oil and gas fields to use, basically can replace the imported models. However, these natural gas compressors are mainly skid-mounted complete compressor sets based on imported hosts and valves and other components, and the main components rely on imports. In terms of technical parameters, the domestic compressor * high power and * high working pressure compared with foreign models, there is still a gap. In terms of service life and reliability, the life of wearing parts of domestic machines, continuous operation time is generally lower than the imported models. In the field of pipeline transportation, especially for large-scale long-distance pipeline, the application of domestic machines is far inferior to imported machines. At present, domestic long-distance pipeline transportation centrifugal compressor can only be manufactured by Shen Drum and Shaanxi Drum. However, they are still in their infancy in terms of design and manufacturing, and they need to rely on foreign companies for maintenance, spare parts and related services. In the field of gas storage, domestic compressors can not fully meet the requirements of the working conditions of gas storage, so the main use of imported models.
With the accelerated pace of localization of major equipment, large-scale, high-end natural gas compressors and their accessories have been basically localized, with only some key technologies and components failing to meet the process requirements. Compared with international equipment providers, the equipment procurement price and service cost advantages are obvious when the difference in technical indicators is not significant. With the increasing proportion of natural gas in China's energy consumption market, it will bring huge market opportunities and development opportunities for natural gas compressor equipment manufacturing service providers.