Countries should be built large-scale natural gas emergency stocks

Countries should be built large-scale natural gas emergency stocks

November 19, 2009

Hexun message recently endured a cold spell in China, promoting Blizzard from North to South. According to various media reports, the surge in demand for natural gas in the South ahead of winter, vehicles with natural gas, have varying degrees of civil natural gas shortages. Out of Wuhan, Zhengzhou out, shortage of natural gas as energy bottlenecks throughout. In this regard, Professor zhongguoshiyoudaxue Dong Xiucheng hexun financial ties, against gas occurs in the South "gas shortage" in the comments.

Hexun: in the current cold weather during the winter, heating needed in areas such as gas rationing residents plenty of cases, the gas shortage phenomenon occurred in the South, why severe natural gas shortages in the South?

Dong Xiucheng: fundamentally speaking, domestic natural gas resource shortages, supply keep pace with the increase of consumption demand, the national sudden changes in weather, lack of exposure on the domestic gas supply capacity.

Hexun: this country is there a corresponding emergency response mechanisms to guarantee the supply of natural gas?

Dong Xiucheng: now the residents of natural gas supplied by a local city gas company, emergency measures can be taken is to restrict the use of some industrial users only, existing gas source can also be an appropriate increase implementation when this method is slower, not suitable for rapid emergency response.

Not been able to quickly supply of natural gas is the source of the problem of, currently State to have in place contingency stocks of natural gas. In contrast, oil emergency measures is relatively complete, in the case of diesel shortage occurs, can be provided by the petroleum inventory replenishment.

Hexun: media reports for domestic natural gas prices are too low, insufficient investment in State-owned energy giant, led to a shortage of natural gas occurred, what do you think this?

Dong Xiucheng: at present the domestic natural gas production and supply of high degree of monopoly by the State controlled prices, despite a series of pricing reform, but there is also a confusing issue of gas price system, reflected in the different sources of natural gas prices are inconsistent, unified source for inconsistent prices without a user, in addition to three aspects of the internal and external prices inconsistent. As natural gas prices households involved, price reform issue is very sensitive, so only hear the stairs over the years, no specific measures introduced. But for now, imports of natural gas prices are too high have been hung upside down question, therefore also in promoting the reform of domestic natural gas pricing, and on the increase.