A Close Look at the Natural Gas Industry Chain

Author(s):  
Mallika Ishwaran ◽  
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William King ◽  
Martin Haigh ◽  
Taoliang Lee ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Li Zhao ◽  
Yu Lulu

With the further development of new types of industrialization and urbanization in China, the environmental deterioration and energy safety problems have been increasingly prominent. As a clean, efficient and high-quality energy source, natural gas has ushered in unprecedented development opportunities. In recent decades, the natural gas consumption has kept high-speed growth in China, but its proportion in the energy consumption structure still has a long way to go to reach the international average level, which is mainly ascribed to the not perfect enough market-oriented reform of natural gas price. Natural gas price reform is not a simple project, but instead, it is complicated as it needs to integrate the reform in the natural gas industry chain, management system reform and market supervision of natural price in different phases. Therefore, promoting the natural gas price reform and establishing a perfect supervision system is the only way to ensure China’s energy safety and realize the transformation and development of low-carbon economy. In this research, the current situation and problems existing in the natural gas price reform in China were analyzed, and the concrete solutions specific to the natural gas industry chain, pricing and market supervision.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Kear

Natural gas is an increasingly vital U.S. energy source that is presently being tapped and transported across state and international boundaries. Controversy engulfs natural gas, from the hydraulic fracturing process used to liberate it from massive, gas-laden Appalachian shale deposits, to the permitting and construction of new interstate pipelines bringing it to markets. This case explores the controversy flowing from the proposed 256-mile-long interstate Nexus pipeline transecting northern Ohio, southeastern Michigan and terminating at the Dawn Hub in Ontario, Canada. As the lead agency regulating and permitting interstate pipelines, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is also tasked with mitigating environmental risks through the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act's Environmental Impact Statement process. Pipeline opponents assert that a captured federal agency ignores public and scientific input, inadequately addresses public health and safety risks, preempts local control, and wields eminent domain powers at the expense of landowners, cities, and everyone in the pipeline path. Proponents counter that pipelines are the safest means of transporting domestically abundant, cleaner burning, affordable gas to markets that will boost local and regional economies and serve the public good. Debates over what constitutes the public good are only one set in a long list of contentious issues including pipeline safety, proposed routes, property rights, public voice, and questions over the scientific and democratic validity of the Environmental Impact Statement process. The Nexus pipeline provides a sobering example that simple energy policy solutions and compromise are elusive—effectively fueling greater conflict as the natural gas industry booms.


2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 4304-4307
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhe Meng

Industrial integration is the trend of the modern industrial economy. It is the result of the enterprises from competition to cooperation. Industry boundaries become blurring. And industries begin to integrate. With technological innovation, business integration, market integration, as well as industry regulation reform, electricity industry and natural gas industry is towards integration. The barriers between electricity industry and natural gas industry has been eliminated through knowledge sharing, mergers and acquisitions, market reform and regulation reform in developed countries. The energy industry in China will also be integration to improve national competitiveness.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianping Zhang ◽  
Fuping Wang ◽  
Yongsong Pu ◽  
Pu Li ◽  
Yingkai Ma ◽  
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Abstract After China's supply chain finance business has gradually matured in the consumer finance field, it has begun to extend to the industrial finance field. As a branch of industrial finance, the natural gas industry supply chain finance business has gradually developed, and the number of participants has gradually increased. The article mainly introduces the development status of natural gas supply chain financial services in China. Research has found that there are still many problems in the current industry development, such as the inability of effective collaboration among participants, and the inability to unify logistics, information flow, capital flow and energy flow in the industry. On this basis, the article studies the methods of blockchain technology to solve corresponding problems, and proposes the application ideas of blockchain technology in the field of natural gas supply chain finance, hoping to promote development by constructing a business model business architecture and technical architecture, This model can produce significant economic and social benefits, has a high theoretical feasibility, but there is no concrete examples at present. Finally, suggestions are made in five aspects, including strengthening the design of top-level systems, incorporating energy flows into the supply chain financial framework system, creating an open innovation atmosphere, enhancing technological progress, strengthening core corporate social responsibility, and promoting core corporate organizational innovation.


2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique de Mello Sant Ana ◽  
Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi ◽  
Sérgio Valdir Bajay

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