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Accelerate Technological Innovation; Aim at Internationally-famous Innovative Company Jiao Fangzheng 2020, 39(1): 1-5.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.001 Abstract ( )   PDF (2415KB) ( )   China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) aims to become an internationally-famous innovative company, which is an important integral part of the company’s goal to build itself into the world’s first-class integrated international energy firm. The analysis indicates that an internationally-renowned new-type companies usually enjoys high industrial position and exerts relatively powerful technological influence with a high degree of internationalization and investment of adequate technological resources. In the development process, the famous innovative companies formulate the technological innovation strategies in accordance with their business development, establish the appropriate technological innovation systems, adopt the strict process management for technological research projects, attach importance to management of technological professionals, and create a good atmosphere for innovation. To become an internationally-famous innovative company, CNPC should further optimize technological organizational system, step up construction of the technological research system, accelerate perfection of the innovation platform system, continually construct the logistics system for technological innovation, and fully improve the capability for technological innovation management.

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Drive CNPC High-quality Development by Making Breakthroughs in Core Technology and Highlighting Innovation-guided Effects Kuang Lichun, Liu Zhihong, Luo Kai, Qian Jinhua, Yu Jianning 2020, 39(1): 6-9.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.002 Abstract ( )   PDF (2127KB) ( )   China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) attaches great importance to science and technology innovation and makes full use of core technology for the company’s high-quality development. CNPC made remarkable achievements in scientific and technological research in 2019. It made significant progress in the areas of major theoretical understanding, core technologies, self-developed equipment and products, effectively maintaining the company’s main business development. However, CNPC still faces a series of challenges, such as limitation of oil and gas resources, inadequate technology stockpiling for increase of reserves and production, transformation and upgrading pressure in the oil refining and chemical sector, and shortage of frontier strategically-disruptive technology. Therefore, CNPC should further accelerate construction of core technological research system, make a good plan for development strategy, strengthen the efforts for technological research, and enhance basic research and advanced technology stockpiling.

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Philosophical Thoughts on Engineering Technological Innovation Su Yinao 2020, 39(1): 10-14.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.003 Abstract ( )   PDF (2412KB) ( )   Based on his research experiences for years, the author elaborates the instructive conceptions and methods for engineering technological innovation from the philosophical angle. The elaboration is also made in eight areas -- non-limitation of the objective world and limitation of the mankind’s knowledge, using the system theory to understand and analyze everything, whatever exists is reasonable and unreasonable too, the negation of negation being the inevitable law for technological development, change from quantity to quality regarded as the basic conception in technological research, “reverse seeking perfection” being the law for engineering technological development, “dissatisfaction” fueling development of innovation, and “success and cost” being the fundamental requirement of engineering technology. This paper also comes up with some new conceptions on engineering technology such as “substantial characteristics” and “the first principle A, B, C”. The author also summarizes what he has studied into “innovation table” and “Three-Character Classic of technological research”.

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Focus Efforts on Opening Innovation Ecological System of China’s State-owned Energy Enterprises Lv Jianzhong, Yang Hong 2020, 39(1): 15-22.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.004 Abstract ( )   PDF (3275KB) ( )   The innovation ecology is a stereoscopic innovation model serving a company’s technological innovation activities and for the company to create the external environment in favor of sustainable and healthy development of technological innovation. The integral parts include innovation bodies, environment, resources, support and culture. China’s enterprises now face the historic option for the technology-dominated future. They urgently need to enhance their independent innovation capability and core competitiveness and foster their competitive edge by means of the innovation ecology. The State-owned enterprises, as an important part of state innovation system, have made active efforts on cultivation of innovation ecology. In recent years, they strengthen the use of external resources and cooperation with universities, promote established industrial innovation strategic alliance, launch risk investment funds, and encourage “Mass entrepreneur ship and innovation” activities. In order to breed the open, inclusive, coordinate, orderly and sustainable innovation ecology, some suggestions are put forward for playing the role of government, defining the responsibility of each innovation body, enhancing financial support, strengthening service and bridge role of intermediary agencies, increasing sharing and mobility of technological resources, and fostering the innovation culture.

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Exploration and Practice of Enterprise’s Technological Innovation Driven by The Reform of Science and Technology System and Mechanism-- Take PetroChina Planning and Engineering Institute as Example Han Jingkuan, He Ning, Wang Qin, Chai Xianfeng 2020, 39(1): 23-28.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.005 Abstract ( )   PDF (2574KB) ( )   The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has issued important instructions on perfection of technological innovation structuring mechanism, guiding the State-owned enterprises for reform and innovation in the new times. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has attached great importance to formulation and implementation of the technological innovation strategy. As a research institute directly affiliated to CNPC, PetroChina Planning and Engineering Institute (CPPEI) has firmly implemented the relative decisions made by the CNPC headquarters on acceleration of technological innovation, and takes the reform of science and technology system as the main grasp of promoting technological innovation. It has also made in-depth analysis of the challenge facing technological innovation according to the actual conditions, identified the orientation for innovation and clearly defined the innovation strategy to stimulate the vitality for innovation. It has carried on the positive exploration and practice in the pursuit of the technological innovation strategy and achieved certain results. The concrete measures include establishing and perfecting technological decision-making organs, technological structures, target system and technological research and development platform, perfecting technological innovation system, innovating technological research operation and management to practice the technological project system and perfect technological fund management, and launching technological prizes to perfect the appraising mechanism, raise prizes and focus on the efforts for transformation of achievements into higher performance. In addition, the institute has established and perfected the “dual sequence” system mechanism, kicked off the projects for fostering and introduction of talents, boosted wages and incentives in favor of the technological professionals, and effectively injected vitality into the technological staff members.

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Practice and Thinking of Oil and Gas Industrial Digitalization Transformation Wang Tongliang 2020, 39(1): 29-33.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.006 Abstract ( )   PDF (2350KB) ( )   Digitalization transformation has become an important measure adopted by oil and gas enterprises in response to the low oil price challenge and high-quality development demand, as the global economic growth is slowing down and the oil price is continually declining. Currently, the oil and gas industry is focused on four areas -- on-the-site operational intelligence, integration of production and business operation, trade and marketing platform, and synergy of research and design -- to accelerate in-depth integration of digital technology with production business management. Digitalization transformation has three main characteristics. First of all, digitalization transformation is regarded as the development strategy for a company. Secondly, data assets management is the prerequisite and foundation for transformation. Thirdly, cross-disciplinary cooperation becomes an important method to accelerate improvement of digitalization capacity. In recent years, CNOOC has practiced digitalization transformation in the areas of oil and gas exploration and development, natural gas and pipelines, oil refining and chemicals, specialized services, and business management, while facing the challenges. Focusing on the domestic oil and gas industrial digitalization transformation, this paper comes up with the suggestions on design of digitalization transformation at the top level, establishment of data assets management system, promotion of pilot digitalization, acceleration of fostering specialized talents for digitalization, and highlight of network security and work control and safety.

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Construction of Intelligent Petrochemical Industry: from Information to Intelligence Li Jianfeng 2020, 39(1): 34-42.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.007 Abstract ( )   PDF (8821KB) ( )   Construction of intelligent petrochemical industry is Sinopec’s important strategy for transformation and development in the intelligent era. Based on the top-level design and pilot construction, a number of projects were brought under construction, such as intelligent oilfield, intelligent factory, intelligent pipeline, intelligent research institute, intelligent gasoline station, intelligent user-served system and intelligent logistics system. The transition from information to intelligence has experienced four stages of construction and development since the year of 2000, with a series of Sinopec-characterized construction mindsets, business processes specifications and standards, and technological platforms initially established. The intelligence-focusing development process based on platforms, services and ecology displays satisfactory economic performance and powerful technological vitality. Construction of intelligent petrochemical industry still has a long way to go. The enterprises should strategically position themselves for this purpose, bring up the culture of full-personnel digitalization, foster IT staff members proficient to serve transformation and development of the enterprise,make data treatment effective, adhere to the itinerary of platforms, and further improve automation of units and facilities, the Internet of Things in particular.

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Study and Application of Evaluation Methods for Technology Transfer Zhao Ming, Jiao Jiao, Liu Zhixin, Zhang Jiaming, Liu Jia, Meng Xianglei, Fan Wenjun 2020, 39(1): 43-48.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.008 Abstract ( )   PDF (2824KB) ( )   Technology serves as the key engine for a company’s business development. Independent research and technology transfer are the main methods for a company to solve its technological problems. To implement the State law for accelerating transformation of technological achievements and carry out the technology transfer catalog system for companies, it is of vital importance to make accurate definition of the technology transfer categories and scientific formulation of the technology. The evaluation system of technology transfer based on management of the company’s internal technology transfer catalog is a series of scientific and integrated appraising methods, both qualitative and quantitative. Combined with an international TRL (Technology Readiness Level) 9 analysis method, the series of methods starts with conceptual design and defines the five analysis indicators relating to policy, maturity, importance, sophistication and economy. The basic evaluation - secondary evaluation process is adopted to make post-evaluation of the existing technology catalog. As a result, the technology evaluation is accurate with desirable results. This evaluating and decisionmaking system with the five categories of evaluating indicators can be used extensively and applied to evaluate other technologies for different values.

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Discuss New Model for “Delegate Power and Optimize Service” Reform of Technological Fund Management Li Hui, Han Yongke, Xu Xiaoming, Guo Zujun, Liu Lei, Ye Fan, Hu Qingsong 2020, 39(1): 49-52.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.009 Abstract ( )   PDF (2126KB) ( )   The State issued the policies to make “delegate power and optimize service” reform of fund management for technological projects. Implementation of this reform has become a focus of attention for the departments related to scientific research, finance, internal control and audit. A number of problems exist in the current system mechanism of technological fund management. For example, the formulation pattern of the cost-oriented technological fund budget cannot be estimated accurately. Management of technological research project is not in line with fund management while information is shared inadequately. Project fund does not come under classified management with the “cutting at one stroke” method being used frequently. Management of fund expenditure is currently complicated, leading to low efficiency of fund use. The existing distribution system is not perfect and technological researchers are not fully encouraged in their work performance. The internal control management and supervision system is left behind, affecting implementation of the “delegate power and optimize service” reform of technological fund management. The study proposes to delegate the power for project management at different levels. At the time of deregulating management, it is necessary to establish the supervision mechanism, initiate scientific research credibility, bring scientific research project under classified management at different levels, and create the shared and opened information management platform.

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Pilot Full Project System Management of Oilfield Companies and Suggestions Pu Rongrong, Gu Sui, Li Xiaoling, Yang Dan, Ma Yingkai 2020, 39(1): 53-58.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.010 Abstract ( )   PDF (2909KB) ( )   Scientific research full project system management is a new model of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to reform the technological system mechanism. PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company has launched a pilot project of this reform at its affiliated six research institutions. A series of measures have been taken in execution of the pilot project, such as adjustment and optimization of the organizational structure, formulation of the related systems, engagement of project head, two-way selection of staff members, establishment of separate financial accounts, delegation of power for use of project fund, quantitative examination of the project, and de-administration of performance examination. Those measures have achieved satisfactory results. This paper focuses on a number of problems existing in the pilot project, such as inappropriate administrative management model at the research institutions, lack of the relative system process, the financial system unsuitable for the related fund management, and lack of the examination and evaluation system. It also comes up with some strategies for implementation of the full project system management, such as consolidating top-level design and implementing in different stages, gradually perfecting organizational system and putting the related systems in place, and establishing the third-party evaluation organ for performance appraisal.

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Research on Risk Technological Investment Trends of International Oil Companies Yan Na, Wang Minsheng, Pi Guanglin 2020, 39(1): 59-66.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.011 Abstract ( )   PDF (3150KB) ( )   Following more than two decades of development, risk technological investment in the oil and gas industry has played the roles of a “searcher” in development of new technology and an “accelerator” for technological R&D and commercialization, serving as an important engine for oil companies to transform themselves and increase their value for higher profits. Chevron, Shell, BP, Saudi Aramco and Equinor have established the specialized organs for risk technological investment and shaped their own appropriate operating models and characteristics in sources and screening of investment projects, mode of investments, operational management, and mode of withdrawal. The trends for the latest investment activities of international oil companies are focused on extension of the applicable advanced technology over the full business chain and involvement of new technology into the full value chain. They are more inclined to choose the projects that can be commercialized to reduce investment risks. The investment regions are expanding from Europe and America to the whole world. Risk technological investment in China’s oil and gas industry is currently at its preliminary stage, with construction of the investment environment left behind. The mode of management needs to be reformed and innovated. It is proposed that the Chinese oil companies should strategically position themselves to open up the new paths for their transformation, enhance the capacity for operation of risk investment, perfect the management procedure and the system of methods for selection and appraisal, accelerate fostering of the cross-disciplinary talents necessary for risk investment, step up exchange and cooperation both at home and abroad, and accelerate accumulation of the experiences in operation of risk investment.

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Promote Application of GeoEast -- Large-scale Domestic Seismic Data Processing and Interpretation Integrated Software Zhan Yi, Xu Shaobo, Lei Na, Zhao Chunshan, Liu Xiaobo, Li Bin 2020, 39(1): 67-71.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2020.01.012 Abstract ( )   PDF (2531KB) ( )   GeoEast is the large-scale domestic seismic data processing and interpretation integrated software, which is one of the ten key engineering tools developed by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) during the 12th Five-year Plan period. CNPC has continually enhanced top-level design and leadership of organization since development of the software that has an independent intellectual property right. With the software put into application on a large scale in the oilfields, BGP Inc. has fully improved its service and support capabilities to continually develop GeoEast in the healthy circulation of “research and development-application-perfection”. The administrative measures combined with the special incentive measures were adopted first within BGP Inc. to promote application of GeoEast software. The special project for promotion of domestic software was launched to improve the software by means of application while making full efforts for creation of CNPC’s main processing and interpretation platform. The efforts also include exchanging and training through a multiple of ways and channels, popularizing the software on the basis of demonstration, and raising the degree of market acceptance. A team of talents was established for development and application of the software on the basis of the innovative management system and operational mechanism. With a unified, all-round and integrated technological service system put in place, GeoEast software continues to serves as a technological support for various oilfields to solve geological issues, increase reserves and production, and reduce the cost for higher efficiency. GeoEast effectively helps BGP Inc. open up international high-end market, bringing about a “cooperative, sharing and win-win” situation of CNPC’s geophysical technology.