Shale gas, a new driving force for future development

In the past year, floods hit Thailand, the United States has frequent hurricanes, and the “corner of Africa” is draught.... These disasters seem to be caused by nature. In fact, human activities cannot be blamed: the climate change brought about by the overuse of traditional energy sources. , which is its important reason.

Liu Hanyuan, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), appealed in an interview with the media to vigorously develop new energy industries, build new energy supply bases, and promote the development of energy consumption in the direction of green environmental protection. The development of new energy industries will change the energy consumption structure and guarantee development with the minimum environmental cost. Once again, it will become a topic of concern to the deputies.

Such voices coincide with the goals of the government. A careful comparison of the contents of the "Accelerate the transformation of the economic development mode" in Premier Wen Jiabao's government work report last year and this year, this year's government work report has specifically included the discussion of "speeding up shale gas exploration and development" to further improve new energy sources. The proportion in the energy consumption structure.

At the end of last year, the State Council approved shale gas as the 172th mineral species in China. The survey and evaluation of the national shale gas resource potential organized by the Ministry of Land and Resources and the optimization project of the favorable area have also yielded results on the eve of **: China's shale gas geological resource potential is 134 trillion cubic meters, and the recoverable resource potential is 25 trillion cubic meters. Rice, which is equivalent to conventional natural gas, means that once shale gas enters industrial production, the proportion of clean energy in China’s total energy consumption will increase significantly. This move will undoubtedly have very important significance in safeguarding national energy security and promoting sound and rapid economic and social development.

Of course, the exploration and development of shale gas in China is still in its infancy and large-scale commercial development will take time, but the Ministry of Land and Resources and other departments have already begun drafting the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for shale gas. We have reason to believe that as a responsible big country, the development of new energy sources such as shale gas in China will not only inject new impetus into the sound and rapid economic and social development of our country in the future, but will also contribute to solving global climate change problems. power.