Author(s): Li Bo, PetroChina Beijing Oil & Gas Pipeline Control Center
Pages: 124-130
Year: 2015 Issue:  5
Journal: Natural Gas Industry
Keyword:  Europe; Natural gas; Marketization; Pipelines; Storages; Operation mode; Tariff; Regulation; China;
Abstract: With the increasing natural gas demand and the diversification of industrial chain,China has proposed a series of reform plans for natural gas marketization to promote the marketization of natural gas industrial chain and the evolution to a competitive structure.As a major natural gas consuming area in the world,Europe has maintained mature natural gas market and storage &transportation facilities through years of development.The EU natural gas market has experienced a relatively profound restructuring with the introduction of natural gas marketization measures.Through reviewing the process of EU natural gas marketization,this paper discusses the diversified components and basic operation principles of the current EU natural gas market,states the roles and operation modes of the storage and transportation enterprises(e.g.natural gas pipeline and gas storage enterprises) in the complete market-oriented natural gas market,and concludes the charging systems under different gas transportation modes.Based on the EU experience,it is concluded that natural gas marketization needs:①necessary regulation agencies;②relatively mature pipe network facilities and consumption structure;and ③appropriate economic incentive measures to motivate the gloomy investment on pipeline infrastructures caused by marketization.These results provide valuable reference for the reform of natural gas market in China.