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Research on Input-output Based Evaluation of Innovation Efficiency of Research Institutes Liu Yaxu, Lu Panhui, Gong Xiaojun, Fu Anqing, Su Hang, Cao Jun 2022, 41(5): 1-6.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.001 Abstract ( )   PDF (2119KB) ( )   Focusing on shortage of evaluation, examination and incentive mechanism of technological innovation efficiency currently needed in oil industry and based on analysis of technological input and output, the evaluating index system of technological innovation efficiency was constructed to select the evaluation method and determine the weights of comprehensive evaluating indexes. Of this system, the technological input included human resources, fund invested in the scientific research projects, and subsidies for scientific research institutions. The output in economic performance mainly covered business revenues and profits. The output of intellectual products included such indexes as invention patents, criteria of formulation and revision, and published theses. Taking the CNPC-affiliated research institutes for examples, this paper comes up with the suggestions on evaluation of innovation efficiency, reasonable selection of evaluating indexes, guidance of technological investment, and improvement of talents value during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. Those suggestions can optimize the input model and stimulate the output from innovation, thus helping accelerate building of the world’s first-class research institute.

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Analyze Key Areas and Orientations of Technological Innovation for Oil and Gas Exploration and Development in 14th Five-Year Plan Period Tang Wei, Zhang Guosheng, Xu Peng 2022, 41(5): 7-15.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.002 Abstract ( )   PDF (2369KB) ( )   The national Energy Bureau and the Ministry of Science and Technology have released “Plan for Technological Innovation in Energy Area during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period”, which is a platform document to guide China’s technological innovation in the energy area during the 14th Five-year Plan period. Focusing on the content in the part of oil and gas exploration and development technology in the “Plan”, this paper makes an in-depth analysis of the nation’s concerns over the security of oil and gas supplies and identify the key areas of oil and gas exploration and development, including the technological gaps and research orientations. The paper highlights the nine technological orientations concerning onshore conventional and unconventional oil and gas exploration and development and makes a detailed analysis of the production demand in each item of technology. It also located low permeability, EOR technology for old oilfields with high water-cut and deep-layer oil and gas exploration and development technology as the key areas of onshore conventional oil and gas exploration and development technology. The key technological research areas of unconventional oil and gas include shale oil and gas, underground coal gasification and natural gas hydrates. The upstream oil and gas sector has a great development potential for clean and low-carbon utilization as well as digitalization and intelligence. The paper proposes that the efforts should be made for vertical and horizontal combinations and combination between basic research and engineering practice, accelerating technological innovation for oil and gas exploration and development and promoting high-quality oil and gas industrial development.

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Opportunities and Challenges Confronted by China’s Petrochemical and Chemical Industry in New Development Stage Wang Hongqiu 2022, 41(5): 16-23.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.003 Abstract ( )   PDF (2052KB) ( )   From the angles of the country’s petrochemical and chemical industrial development history and experience, current conditions and macro environment, this paper elaborates the new development stage of China’s petrochemical and chemical industry, pointing out that the industry faces the opportunities of improving innovation capabilities, optimizing industrial structure and distribution, boosting energy efficiency and empowering digitalization. However, the industry also faces a series of challenges, such as inadequate international competitiveness, inflexibility of existing product structure to meet the market changes, and the existing technological level unable to effectively support high-quality development. The paper proposes that China’s petrochemical and chemical industry should conform to the environmental changes and development trends, taking advantage of the opportunities and challenges. In addition, the industry should continually enhance the Independent innovation and integrated innovation capabilities and steadily improve the stability and competitiveness of the industrial chain, accelerate industrial structural adjustment and transition and significantly boost security of the new chemical materials, optimize and adjust industrial distribution to guide, standardize and promote high-quality and concentrated development, speed up industrial digitalized transition to empower corporate operational management capability, and promote green and low-carbon circulated development to improve substantial safety and clean production level.

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Intelligent Development of CNOOC Gas-fired Power Plant Cao Chuangming, Wang Tongliang 2022, 41(5): 24-32.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.004 Abstract ( )   PDF (1837KB) ( )   China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is the sole company of China’s big-three oil companies to make involvement in gas-fired power business. Implementation of “separation of power plant and grid and participation of competitive bids for grid” and policies for integration of informatization and industrialization provides CNOOC with the strategic opportunities and development space. Intelligent development of CNOOC gas-fired power plant has experienced three stages of informatization, digitalization and digital transitional upgrading. In the first stage (around the year of 2000), functional expansion, optimization and modernization of the related basic network were carried out on the basis of the corporate information management system. Digitalization technology and method were adopted in acquisition, collection and analysis of the related key data in the second stage (2010-2015). In the third stage (after 2015), databank technology and big data analysis technology were adopted to highlight the real-time characteristics of power trading decision while the efforts were focused on construction of an intelligent and concentrated control gas-fired power plant. Furthermore, this pattern was practiced in the other power plants.The prominent characteristic of intelligent construction and management at CNOOC gas-fired power plant is large platform and convenient application (namely the large-scale concentrated and unified platform and convenience of various applications). The power plant is centered on the intelligent platform with integration of other information systems and under unified management. The personnel and informatization systems were innovatively combined with the production system to support green, low-carbon and high-quality development of CNOOC gas-fired power plant. Intelligent information management with the characteristics of CNOOC gas-fired power plant went through construction of the project and production process, thus bringing about digitalized transition from energy producer to customer service on the basis of pilot construction.

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Organizational Structural Adjustment of International Oil Companies Against Low-carbon Background and Its Enlightenment Wang Zijian, Gao Feng, He Xujiao, Wang Xi, Xu Jinzhong 2022, 41(5): 33-40.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.005 Abstract ( )   PDF (2196KB) ( )   Organizational structural adjustment of an enterprise is the guarantee for realization of its strategic goals and one of the engines for its business results and sustainable development. Against the background of global carbon peak and carbon neutrality, international oil companies face internal and external pressure and accelerate formulation of the goals for low-carbon transition, establishing the joint mechanism to make low-carbon solutions in common. As for option of the transition strategy, most of the European oil companies are radical while their North American counterparts are passive and conservative. The national oil companies of resources countries act as followers. To highlight the low-carbon transition, a number of international oil companies adjust their organizational structure and establish additional low-carbon business departments at the levels of management and business. Taking TotalEnergies, Shell and Chevron as examples, this paper analyzes the methods and characteristics of their organizational structural adjustment. It also elaborates the changes in the organizational structure of China’s petroleum enterprises and comes up with some suggestions concerning how to adapt the internal transformation with the external situation. First of all, the top-level design of low-carbon development should be enhanced to bring about transition to integrated energy firms from the oil and gas concentrated companies. Secondly, it is necessary to integrate “oil & gas +” superior resources to make full use of the R&D and technological advantages of the State-owned enterprises. Thirdly, low-carbon risks management should be strengthened to prevent and eliminate the risks from the external environment which may take place in the future.

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Research on Ranking Method for Values Creativity of Oil and Gas Production Plants within Oil and Gas Field Enterprises Liu Bin 2022, 41(5): 41-45.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.006 Abstract ( )   PDF (2197KB) ( )   Under the oil company system, the oil and gas production plants act as the profit simulation sub-centers of the oil and gas field enterprises, which bear the main responsibilities for oil and gas production and cost control. The current method to appraise their value creativity of is based on ranking of output and profit indexes, ignoring the influences of some subjective and objective factors, such as personnel structure, geological structure and production methods. The volume-cost-profit scoring method is based on production and centers on profits, which highly focuses on the matching relations between input and output. With both “quantity and efficiency equally emphasized” in comprehensive evaluation, the method ranks the value creativity of the oil and gas production plants, thus playing a positive role in formulation of the policies linking work with efficiency for the oil and gas field enterprises. The practicability of this method has been further confirmed since it was used to evaluate and analyze the value creativity of 12 oil and gas production plants of CHQ Oilfield in 2021.

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Construction and Application of Innovation Performance Evaluation Model for Scientific Research Institutes of Oil and Gas Field Companies Gu Sui, Jiang Ruyi, Wang Jing, Liu-Shen Aoyi, Qin Yuan, He Haoyang 2022, 41(5): 46-56.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.007 Abstract ( )   PDF (2519KB) ( )   Conventional evaluation methods and indicators cannot satisfy the need for appraising innovation performance of the scientific research institutes affiliated to the oil and gas field companies. It is necessary to make the study of innovation and construct the related evaluation model and indicator system. Innovation made by the research institutes of the oil and gas field companies is a systematic process of inputting all the factors and applying innovation results for higher performance. The innovation performance model to be constructed should cover innovation input, innovation process, innovation output and innovation guarantee. The system of indicators for evaluation of innovation performance includes four first-class indicators, 11 second-class indicators and 22 third-class indicators. This paper confirms the study by taking a certain oil and gas field company for example. The result indicates that this method is simple and easy to operate, helping the research institutes of the oil and gas field companies evaluate innovation performance and bring about independence and self-reliance in science and technology.

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Thinking of CNOOC International Standardization in New Era Tan Yue, Zheng Hui, Du Yubao, Wu Wei 2022, 41(5): 57-62.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.008 Abstract ( )   PDF (1260KB) ( )   “National Standardization Development Outline” is the action platform to promote China’s standardization development in the new era. It comes up with higher requirements on international standardization. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, CNOOC has focused on its advantageous area and blank area and apparently improved standard technology level and internationalization, thus making a breakthrough in international standards. Currently, the corporation has released 13 items of international standards. In addition, CNOOC has been in charge of standardizing and putting into effect the domestic counterparts of technology for a number of international standardization organizations. It has satisfactorily finished all the tasks in this area. To accelerate internationalization of standards, CNOOC will strive to meet the goal and requirements raised in the “Outline”, and take an active part in international standardization projects, expand the areas of the domestic technical counterparts, enhance the special research areas, promote construction of the related systems, and foster the talent working staff. Aiming at the company’s development strategy, the offshore oil producer will raise its position in international standardization and construct a well-structured multi-disciplinary standardization system in connection with internationalization.

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Research and Application of Evaluation on Reasonable Development and Utilization of Petroleum Resources Kuang Ming, Qu Debin 2022, 41(5): 63-67.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.009 Abstract ( )   PDF (2095KB) ( )   Based on the minimum requirements on the indexes of the “three rates” for rational development and utilization of petroleum resources in China, this paper summarizes the methods for evaluating the “three rates” (crude production rate, crude recovery rate, and comprehensive utilization rate of associated resources) for the reasonable development and utilization of petroleum resources, as well as the results obtained in this area. It offers to improve the assessment indexes system for appropriate petroleum resource development and utilization. Taking into account the rationality, adaptability, and operability of the indexes, and based on a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of actual cases in oilfields, this paper proposes adopting the three indexes of recovery rate, commodity rate, and producing degree of reserves as the fundamental evaluation indexes of development and utilization. As an alternate indicator of development and utilization, the comprehensive utilization rate of associated resources is used. The crude recovery rate is not used as the development and utilization evaluation metric since it is difficult to quantify precisely. As for evaluating and managing reasonable development and utilization of petroleum resources, this paper proposes several reasonable revisions in areas such as standardizing the evaluation indexes and evaluation methods, enhancing organization and management of evaluation, identifying the indexes in detail, enhancing and refining the calculation methods, and dynamically adjusting the classification boundary standards.

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Practice from Construction of Normal Pressure Shale Gas Exploration and Development Demonstration Project in Pengshui Area Yao Hongsheng, He Xipeng, Wang Kaiming 2022, 41(5): 68-74.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.010 Abstract ( )   PDF (2671KB) ( )   South China has a great potential for normal pressure shale gas resources with a broad prospect for development. Based on the national science and technology major projects, Sinopec East China Oil & Gas Company highlighted the normal pressure shale gas geological characteristics in Pengshui area of Southeast Sichuan, focused on the problems and goals, pursued the two main principles of higher production and lower cost, established the “production-university-research-application” joint research project team in integration of the advantageous resources and made breakthrough in the key technologies on the basis of innovative basic theoretical study. The company tried to establish a green and high-efficiency normal pressure shale gas exploration and development model in a number of areas, such as technology, integrated operation and oil company operating model. It also put in place the organizational management system centering “combination of business with finance”. The management model of this system was composed of the leadership team, the technological research team, the comprehensive finance team, the experts consultancy team and the special project office. The finance system followed the principle that no payment was made without a budget, beyond the budget or out of the budget, while adjustment of fund budget for the major special projects should be based on policies, evidences, applications and approvals. The organizational management system also placed the emphasis on both tasks of goal and supervision of fund use and kept the demonstration project on the track of the rules and in high-efficiency operation. In the past five years, the Pengshui demonstration project has created the “three-factor controlling reservoir” geological theory on normal pressure shale gas, which referred to deep-water shelf facies controlling hydrocarbon accumulation, preservation conditions controlling the degree of shale gas enrichment and in-situ stress field influencing effects of fracturing transformation and controlling single-well yield. The geological theory led to a series of key technologies, such as low-density three-dimension seismic exploration, optimized fast drilling, and complex fracture network fracturing. As a result, with the breakthrough made in commercial development of normal pressure shale gas, the first large-scale shale gas field was found in China. The proven geological reserves approached 2000×108m3 with a 21×108m3/a productivity constructed. The shale gas production has been accumulated to surpass 36×108m3. The research achievements have been extensively applied in the areas of the same kind, showing a remarkable effect of guidance and demonstration.

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Study and Practice of Green and Benefited Development at Huabei Oilfield Zhang Yuan, Zhang Tengyue, Chen Yanjun, Wang Jinjin, Guo Yuting, Wang Hongyu 2022, 41(5): 75-81.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302x.2022.05.011 Abstract ( )   PDF (2322KB) ( )   As China moved closer towards the “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” goal, green and low-carbon transition of energy has been apparently accelerated, posing a huge challenge to the traditional energy industry. PetroChina Huabei Oilfield Company has made active efforts for sustainable development in recent years and taken the measures for multi-element development of its business and reduction of emission and energy saving on the basis of scientific decisions and innovation. Those measures sped up transition of the old oilfield and kept it on the high-quality development track. Huabei Oilfield has restructured itself in the areas of budget system, incentive system, scientific research system as well as organizational and business models. It innovated the benefited development mechanism, established the model for the single-well economic benefit border, practiced the “enlisting and leading” system for key engineering projects, and perfected the technological innovation system at three levels. The oilfield has made remarkable achievements in reduction of production cost, motivation of scientific research personnel, expansion of space for talents and invigoration of the company’s development. With the further efforts to intensify research of key technologies, the company has accelerated the CCUS engineering project, improved the oilfield’s productivity while securing energy supply for the nation, thus consolidating ecological safety and environmental protection and bringing about green and benefited development of the old oilfield.