The high-end seminaron 2018 new normal, new opportunities of natural gas industry hosted by GasTank opened in Yantai, Shandong province on 14 September 2018.
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The seminar wasco-organized by Huaheng Energy, Longkou Shengtong Energy and Shandong WanhetongNew Energy. Sponsors of the seminar included PetroChina, CNOOC, CIMC CapitalLtd, Jereh Group, NEU Scientific Instrument, Platts and Jiaxing Yahang InformationTechnology.
More than 300elites and policymakers from domestic and foreign well-known enterprises,research institutes and scientific research institutes participated in the seminarand discussed the development of the natural gas industry. Gas Tank was verygrateful to co-organizers, sponsors and participants for their strong supportfor this high-end seminar.
Thishigh-end seminar brought together people with aspirations in the natural gasindustry and strove to help enterprises start a new journey of transformationand development by analyzing the development trend of the natural gas industryand the innovation of the business mode. In this seminar, hot topics andfrontier development of the market concerned by most market players were warmlydiscussed.
Gas Tankhoped that the platform set up by this seminar could help enterprises in andoutside the natural gas industry reach effective and win-win cooperation.
Huang Qing,founder and general manager of Gas Tank, delivered a speech and made anintroduction of the seminar. Huang believed that as clean energy, natural gaswill play a decisive role as China is upgrading its environmental pollutioncontrol. In the next 5-10 years, China's natural gas consumption will show arapid growth trend and it will become an important part of China's primaryenergy, Huang said.
The supply of natural gas is a double-edged sword that restricts developmentof the industry. The growth of China’s natural gas consumption is conducive to thedevelopment of natural gas in both China and the world; at the same time, Chinahas to urgently solve the problem of natural gas supply sources.
China isexpected to become the fastest growing consumer in Asia, and it will have theopportunity to become Asia’s natural gas pricing center. In recent years, theChinese government issued various policies to support the development ofChina's natural gas industry. From the end of the 13th Five-year plan period tothe beginning of the 14th Five-year plan period, the China natural gas marketwill provide major investment and development opportunities in the production,supply, storage, transportation and marketing sectors.
Thishigh-end seminar focused on hot topics such as the production, supply, storageand marketing of natural gas, winter supply safety, tank transport, sea-to-rivertransport, international natural gas market, imports and the development of a strongcoastal province for Shandong.
The seminaralso had three special salons, which triggered warm discussions on thedevelopment of natural gas industry as attendees actively asked expertsquestions.
Topics ofthe salon forums are: 1. Under the background of marketization, how couldenterprise make good business strategies? Whether gas crunch will occur inwinter 2018 and how to deal with it? 2. What is the new development trend ofLNG industry chain? 3. How to optimize the procurement of imported LNG? How couldcoastal areas make use of their advantages to make up China's natural gassupply gap? How to form industrial effects? In response to the questions raisedon the salons, the experts expressed their opinions and gave wise answers in orderto jointly promote the development of the natural gas industry.