文档介绍：Progress of Exploration and
Development of Shale Gas in China
China National Petroleum Corporation
September. 2010
Preface
In the last year, with the rapid development of global gas, three striking characters
emerged. One is that we have all recognized 21st century is a century of natural
gas; and the second one is that a low carbon economy and environment
protection are subjects of world development, and the last one is that
unconventional gas is not only changing international energy landscape, but also
ing the hot spot of global.
With respect to conventional gas, shale gas is absolutely a new field. With the
rapid exploitation of shale gas in USA, the shale gas production grows fast, which
made the LNG program -a program planed to be imported—suspended or
delayed. China has heavy demand for natural gas, however, the gas price of
imported from middle Asia and the LNG program of southeast china coastal hilly
regions, is estimated to be higher than 2 yuan/m3 . Relatively,China has
abundant shale gas resource, and thus accelerating development and utilization
of shale gas has important strategic significance to promote sustainable growth of
Chinese economy and relieve shortage of petroleum resource.
Outline
I Shale Gas Resource and Distribution of China
II Shale Gas Progress PC
III Conclusions and Understanding
1. Definition of Shale Gas
Shale gas is a special kind of unconventional natural gas. Shale
gas definition: natural gas occurred in the mudstone or shale with the
features of self generation self storage, no air-water interface, formation
and storage for a continuous large area, low porosity, low permeability
and the like, it generally has no natural capacity or low-yielding and
needs large-scale water power fracturing and horizontal well technology
for economic exploitation with long single well production cycle.
2. The global shale gas resources is abundant
The global amount of the total resources of shale gas is 45