中国天然气大发展——中国石油工业的二次创业

进入21世纪，中国的天然气产量和储量增长迅速。近期在塔里木、鄂尔多斯、四川盆地发现4个规模很大的天然气富集区和一批大型天然气田，是天然气快速发展的基础。按油当量计算，中国天然气产量将达到并可能超过原油产量，2020年天然气年产量将达到2 000亿立方米，2030年前后天然气年产量可超过2 500亿立方米。同时，中国正在积极从国外进口天然气，预计2020年进口量将达到1 100亿立方米，届时中国的天然气消费量将达到3 100亿立方米，约占能源消费结构的10％，将有效改善中国的能源消费结构。

Surging of natural gas in China: A new journey of China's petroleum industry

Gas production and the proved reserves have been increasing rapidly since 2000 in China, which is based on the discovery of 4 new large gas-rich areas and a batch of large-scale gas fields in the Tarim, Ordos and Sichuan basins. It is predicted that gas production will measure the same as oil production in the coming future, and even exceed oil production later on. China's gas production is expected to up to 200 bcm in 2020, over 250 bcm around 2030. At present, China is active to seek gas imports from abroad. By 2020, there will be about 110 bcm of gas expected to be imported, and 310 bcm of gas be available in the market for consumption, sharing about 10 percent of the primary energy mix in 2020, which will actively improve China's primary energy mix.