Influence of hydrogen energy industry development on natural gas production enterprises and countermeasures —a casestudy on SichuanChongqing area
Author of the article:HE Jinyue1, QIAO Lingxi2, ZENG Jinhua3, XIAO Qiang4, LIU Zhong5, ZHANG Chengdong1
Author's Workplace:1. Natural Gas Economic Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610051, China; 2. Shale Gas Exploration and Development Department, CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Limited, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610051, China; 3. Sichuan Huayou Group Co., Ltd. Northwest Sichuan Branch Deyuan CNG Refuelling Station, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611730, China; 4. PetroChina Qinghai Oilfield Company, Dunhuang, Gansu, 736200, China; 5. Gas Transmission Management Office, PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610213, China
Key Words:Hydrogen energy; Hydrogen energy industry; Natural gas production enterprise; Influence; Countermeasures; SichuanChongqing area
Abstract:
In the golden
age of the major development of natural gas industry, hydrogen energy is an
ideal energy carrier to promote the clean utilization of traditional fossil
energy and the large scale development of renewable energy. It will usher in
the rapid development of the industry as a general trend, and will definitely
have an impact on natural gas production enterprises. Taking the example of
Sichuan-Chongqing area, one of
China's main natural gas
producing and consumption regions, this paper analyses the influence of
hydrogen energy industry development on natural gas production enterprises
based on the SWOT model:1)Strength analysis: Sichuan-Chongqing area has the inherent advantages of large-scale hydrogen production with good resource
endowment; natural gas production will not be adversely affected in the short
term and hydrogen production process would bring in opportunities; spiking
hydrogen into natural gas pipeline network brings great benefits.2)Weakness
analysis: the hydrogen energy industry is in its infancy stage and urgently
needs to be accelerated; the storage and transportation industry is relatively
weak with technical bottlenecks remain to be overcome.3)Opportunity analysis:
supporting policies for hydrogen energy industry have been introduced
regularly; transportation sector is the focus of downstream utilization
development.4)Threat analysis: the hydrogen terminal market has a greater
influence on the natural gas production enterprises; the construction and
management of hydrogen refuelling station is relatively weak and the capital
cost is high. The results show that the development of the hydrogen energy
industry in Sichuan-Chongqing
area brings more opportunities than challenges to natural gas production
enterprises in general. Therefore, natural gas production enterprises are
encouraged to pro-actively
participate in and promote the development of hydrogen energy industry:
participate in strategic planning and conceptual development design, and
improve the structure of the value chain of the industry; cooperate with
related enterprises to develop more expertise and technologies on hydrogen
production from natural gas; take advantage of spiking hydrogen into natural
gas pipeline network to promote the development of hydrogen energy midstream
transportation market; steadily explore the construction of combined natural
gas and hydrogen refuelling stations and hydrogen refuelling stations to
maintain the advantages of integrated production, transportation, storage and
marketing facilities.