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Thoughts and Suggestions on Strengthening Basic Research and Creating Original Technology Sources for CNPC Jiang Tongwen 2024, 43(2): 1-7.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.001 Abstract ( )   PDF (3953KB) ( )   Basic research is the source of the whole scientific system. The depth and width of basic research determines the original innovation dynamics and vigor. Consolidation of basic research is the important strategic step taken by the Party Central Committee headed by Comrade Xi Jinping. As one of the important state-owned backbone enterprises, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has always adhered to the principle of technology-led business development, regarded scientific and technological innovation as one of its top priorities for the country when making the development strategy, and made the progress in this area at the current stage. The general strategic distribution has been shaped with the platform system for basic research already put in place.Meanwhile, cooperation for innovation is continually under reinforcement. A large number of landmark achievements have been made in the geological theories and exploration and development technologies for ultra-deep layer natural gas, continental shale oil and deep-layer CBM. However, as compared to construction of original technology sources and the company’s demand for high-quality development, there were still some problems to be ironed out, such as unclear basic research connotations, unclear-cut strategic orientation, imperfect system and mechanism of science and technology, inadequate top talents and teams for basic research, and the innovation ecology needed to be further optimized. Therefore, the company is short of revolutionary and influential original achievements and adequate support for construction of original technology sources. It is proposed to clarify the company’s basic research connotations focusing on the nation’s strategic demands and perfect the basic R&D system that is led by construction of original technology sources, based on the state-level scientific research platforms, focused on the basic and prospective technological projects supplemented with a variety of funds, and guaranteed by innovation of the system and mechanism. CNPC will be committed to creating new knowledge and stockpiling new technologies for the company’s scenario and future business direction while solving the key bottlenecks restricting the company’s high-quality development and serving for construction of original technology sources and high-level scientific and technological independence and self-reliance.

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Thinking of Constructing New-type Energy System for Fulfillment of Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Goals Zhang Yuqing 2024, 43(2): 8-14.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.002 Abstract ( )   PDF (4172KB) ( )   China promised the world to reach carbon peak in 10 years and carbon neutrality in another 30 years. To complete this tremendous task, the nation faced a series of challenges, such as high energy consumption, coal-focused energy structure and a large base number for carbon discharge control. Therefore, it is necessary to accelerate the efforts to carry out the new energy security strategy called “Four Reforms and One Cooperation”. Based on understanding from the related parties, the new-type energy system can be preliminarily summarized as new energy structure, new shape of system, new industrial system, new treatment system, new structuring mechanism and new regulation method. This paper takes into account construction of the new energy system as a whole and puts forward 10 measures to help fulfillment of the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. They include ensuring the stability of energy supply security, accelerating green and low-carbon energy transition, giving priority to energy saving for higher efficiency,coordinated and integrated development of multi-energy complementation, improving the digital and intelligent level of the energy industry, developing concentrated and distributed energy, promoting rural energy revolution, overcoming the bottlenecks of key technologies and equipment, developing comprehensive energy service industry, and fueling “the Belt and Road” high-quality development.

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Characteristics of Global Industrial Development in 2023 and Outlook of Its Future Wu Mouyuan, Wang Hui, Zhang Pengcheng, Qin Zihan 2024, 43(2): 15-21.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.003 Abstract ( )   PDF (2676KB) ( )   Global energy industry was gradually recovering from adjustment and restructuring in 2003. Generally speaking,resumption showed three characteristics – energy prices declining, energy demand and supply basically in balance and energy transition steadily in progress. This paper briefs about the main factors influencing global energy industrial development, analyzes both global and Chinese energy industrial development characteristics and prospects, and comes up with the suggestions for promotion of global energy industrial development. It includes a series of viewpoints. (1) The environment of global energy industrial development was increasingly complicated in 2023 owing to the impact of some factors, such as geopolitics, climatic changes, lowcarbon transition, and technological revolution. (2) Following the impact of geopolitical risks in 2023, various countries paid more and more attention to energy security with reasonable awareness of energy transition. (3) China made unified efforts for energy security and transitional development and used establishment of the new-type energy system as an opportunity to accelerate global energy cooperation and global energy transition while promoting high-quality development of its own energy industry.

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Research on How Green Finance Helps Central State-owned Enterprises with Their Carbon Peak Actions Zhou Shijie, Hu Dongou, Fan Binglong, Liu Xingzhou, Jiang Peng 2024, 43(2): 22-29.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.004 Abstract ( )   PDF (2524KB) ( )   Realization of carbon peak and carbon neutrality is an inevitable option to build a community with a shared future of mankind. It is also the focus area for which green finance offers support and service. China’s green finance has been under a rapid development in recent years and continually influenced by the preferential policies. A system of green finance products has been established for common development, which is focused on green credits and loans and includes green bonds, green insurance, green fund, green trust, green leasing and carbon finance. This paper makes an in-depth analysis of the finance service demands required by the central SOEs for their carbon peak actions in the areas of capital providence, insurance and security, technological incubation and management of carbon assets. It also analyzes the typical cases from the finance holdings companies of the central SOEs like State Grid Yingda International Holdings Co. Ltd., AVIC Industry-Finance Holdings Co. Ltd., and China Merchants Finance Holdings Co.Ltd. It is proposed to use multi-element financial service tools, accelerate development of product services and perfect the green financial support system, thus helping the central SOEs with their carbon peak actions.

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Analysis of Biochemical Business Development Strategies Adopted by International Energy and Chemical Companies Xue Jing, Xian Nanying, Fu Kaimei, Hou Yuxuan 2024, 43(2): 30-38.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.005 Abstract ( )   PDF (2966KB) ( )   Biochemistry usually uses biomass as raw material or adopts a relatively mild biological fermentation process. With typical green characteristics, it has become one of the key areas in the strategic plans made by international energy and chemical companies under the“ net zero carbon” goal. BASF, DuPont, TotalEnergy and ExxonMobil, which involved themselves into biochemical business earlier, attached great importance to technological innovation and focused efforts on their respective advantageous business areas.BASF released the biomass balance plan and stressed biological substitution of the key intermediates, making use of industrial biological technology in advance. Total Energy selected biofuels as a breakthrough point, made a unified plan for both upstream and downstream sectors and continually enhanced the product advantages. DuPont was sensitive to market opportunities and continually committed to the differentiated competition advantages. Sticking to the main business of oil products, ExxonMobil timely adjusted the key area of biofuels distribution and kept itself as a technological leader in this area. Based on their own business orientation, the Chinese enterprises can learn from the development models and experience of the major companies, to accelerate the transition from technological innovation to industrial application.

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Practice from Application of Cost-utility Approach, A Cost-based Method for Evaluation of Oil and Gas Mineral Rights Dong Yuexia, Li Feng, Ge Zhibin, Wu Sujuan 2024, 43(2): 39-45.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.006 Abstract ( )   PDF (2751KB) ( )   The cost approach is one of the internationally accepted approaches to appraise the value of mineral rights. The appraised targets are basically the mineral rights with low exploration degrees. The article analyzes the limitations on evaluation of the oil and gas mineral rights by means of application market approach and revenue approach at the present stage in China. It also clarifies the necessity for further perfection of the cost approach to evaluate the oil and gas mineral rights. It establishes an evaluation model of the cost-utility approach for oil and gas mining rights according to“ Guidelines for Mining Rights Evaluation” and the characteristics of the stage oil and gas mining rights transfer (transaction) market, which not only takes into the replacement cost of effective exploration workload on the blocks under the mineral rights but also the cost for acquisition and holding cost as well as the income from transaction of the mineral rights. Trial calculation indicated that the cost-utility approach is not only applicable to the blocks which have small initial investment workload, low exploration degree, and have not yet estimated proved oil and gas reserves, but also to those with proved reserves but cannot be evaluated through the income method.

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Countermeasures and Thinking of Beneficial Development of Continental Shale Oil in China Liu Bin 2024, 43(2): 46-57.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.007 Abstract ( )   PDF (2868KB) ( )   China has continually made progress in shale oil exploration and development in recent years, thus enabling it to become important replacement resource for increasing crude oil reserves and production. Shale oil exploration and development has three main characteristics-“high investment in the initial stage, great difficulty for technology and high production cost”. Depending on the latest technological development and innovation and breakthrough in the market system and governmental regulation, the United States has successfully brought shale oil under commercial development. The US experience is of realistic reference to China’s largescale beneficial development of shale oil. Focusing on the characteristics of China’s continental sedimentation, this paper analyzes five main factors restricting beneficial development of continental shale oil-“heterogeneity of reservoirs, large buried depth of reservoirs, key technology, management model and specifications and standards”. It reveals the theory of continental shale oil enrichment and the related key exploration and development technology as well as the challenges facing adaptability and economic performance in large-scale application. Based on three areas of technological progress, lean management and policy support, the paper also comes up with 11 countermeasures to improve beneficial development of shale oil, such as enhancing basic theoretical study,focusing research on key technology, studying beneficial productivity model, consolidating geology-engineering-economy integration,strengthening investment management and process management, accelerating digital transition and project management, paying attention to the added value of shale oil development and utilization, and establishing the policy supporting system and the fundraising guarantee system. The large-scale beneficial shale oil development can be promoted on the basis of establishing the characteristic and beneficial development model for continental shale oil.

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Optimization Strategy of CNPC Innovation Fund Management Mechanism Xu Xiaoming, Fu Guoyou, Li Hui, Wang Zhimin, Qiu Zhichao, Tang Lei, Zhang Tao 2024, 43(2): 58-62.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.008 Abstract ( )   PDF (4433KB) ( )   To back basic research and enhance technological innovation, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) launched the technological innovation fund in 1993, aiming to help the young and middle-aged technological talents at universities and research institutes and establish an opening ecology for technological innovation. The fund has financed for more than 300 million yuan in the past 30 years and become an innovation platform for both universities and CNPC to jointly improve basic research abilities. In recent years, CNPC has accelerate basic research work and perfected the financing system of the fund. Therefore, it is of urgency to the innovation fund under scientific research management pattern. Facing the trends and challenges such as the demand for scientific development in the new era, the new demand by the State for basic research to be carried out by the State-owned enterprises, and development of scientific research management information, CNPC innovation fund has focused on the three key reform tasks of “clarifying the direction of financed projects, perfecting the project-financing system and optimizing conversion of technological achievements”. The fund made the study of the new management mechanism for innovation development in the areas of the guide system, financing form, fostering of talents and conversion and application of achievements. Meanwhile, the efforts were made for construction of information management platform, adoption of process management for the whole project and further promotion of integration between scientific research management innovation mechanism and information.

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Study and Practice of Value Creation and Benchmarking for Scientific Research Institutes Ding Hao, Lu Panhui, Zhao Xinwei, Liu Yaxu 2024, 43(2): 63-69.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.009 Abstract ( )   PDF (2557KB) ( )   The effort for value creation is one of the important methods for the State-owned enterprises to accelerate building of themselves into the world's first-class enterprises. It is also an important task for restructuring of the State-owned enterprises. Based on benchmarking management practice and taking its own conditions into account, CNPC Tubular Goods Research Institute Co. Ltd.selected the model enterprises to optimize the design of the value creation indexes system and construct the benchmarking databank with involvement of configurations at three levels and 40 items of indexes. The research institute made horizontal comparation with the benchmarking enterprises and vertical comparation with its own indexes in the past three years while analyzing and identifying its gaps and disadvantages existing in the areas of technological innovation, efficiency and benefits, and fostering of talents. It carried out a series of measures for high-quality development and best management practice, such as distributing the strategic emerging industries in advance, enhancing the study of key technology and conversion and application of achievements, strengthening fostering of leading technological talents, perfecting the operational mechanism of scientific research management, and sustainably improving management service performance. Based on the effort for benchmarking value creation, the research institute perfected the valuecreating system, sustainably improved its core competitiveness and enhanced the core functions, thus creating the new situation for building itself into the world’s first-class research institute.

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Progress and Prospect of CNPC Advanced Energy Storage Technologies Wang Xiaoqi, Bai Shengchi, Yang Rui, Wen Wen, Feng Jinqian, Ban Fansheng, Jiang Long, Yang Shuangye, Wang Jianchuan, Ji Dongdong, Wang Shengchun, Zhang Lin, Xiong Lihui, Yu Huidi, Liu Di, Li Yiheng 2024, 43(2): 70-82.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.010 Abstract ( )   PDF (10766KB) ( )   Significant changes are taking place in global energy sector. Traditional international oil and gas companies have made their plans to transform towards green and low-carbon energy. Energy storage has functions such as energy storage and flexible scheduling, and there are a number of application scenarios, such as the wind and solar power supply side in oil and gas fields, the power grid side of power transmission, and the user side of the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the petroleum industry, thus playing an important role. This paper studies and elaborates the development trend of energy storage industry as well as the characteristics and maturity of various advanced energy storage technologies. It also discusses the low-cost, high-safety,temperature-resistant and large-capacity energy storage technologies that are needed in the oil and gas industry. In addition, the paper also puts forward the current challenges currently faced in terms of technological cost, capacity and scale, cycling life and reliability,geographical limitation and environmental impacts, and regulatory and policy support. Based on investigation and analysis of energy storage distributed by international oil and gas companies and energy companies, the energy storage demands of the oil and gas industry is classified according to small-scale (<1MW/1MW·h), middle-scale (1MW/1MW·h-100MW/100MW·h), and large-scale (>100MW/100MW·h). Since the 13th Five-year Plan, CNPC has made a series of innovative achievements in electrochemical energy storage, such as lithium titanate battery, aqueous zinc ion battery and flow battery, and physical energy storage, such as salt-cavern compressed air and flywheel energy storage. Faced with the diverse routes, rapid iteration and long industrial chain of energy storage technology, the oil and gas enterprises should promote energy storage business development according to their own demands and featured application scenarios. The paper also proposes several specific suggestions. First, accelerate the integration between the oil and gas industry and new energy industry, using energy storage technology as a link. Second, develop characteristic energy storage technologies that meet the needs of the oil and gas industry, and quickly establish the system of standards. Third, it is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of interdisciplinary talents, and cultivate the engineering professionals that can adapt themselves to energy storage technological development in the oil and gas industry. Finally, it is necessary for energy storage technologies to play the key role in the future comprehensive energy system, to support the transition of oil and gas enterprises into integrated energy companies.

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Patent-based Analysis of Digital Twin Technological Development Trend for Smart Oil and Gas Reservoirs and Related Suggestions Guang Xinjun, Li Jing, Yan Na, Zhao Gufan, Ma Guangjun, Zhang Chengxian, Wang Lishuang 2024, 43(2): 83-94.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.011 Abstract ( )   PDF (7744KB) ( )   Digital twin is one of the key technologies for construction of smart oil and gas reservoirs and plays an important role in accelerating oil and gas industrial transition and reducing the cost for higher performance. Based on the Global Patent Databank of Smart Bud (PatSnap) and using the patent measurement and patent text analysis methods, this paper analyzes the digital twin technology of smart oil and gas reservoirs in such areas as the patent-applying technological system, variations in application quantity, regional distributions, the main R&D institutions, technological R&D hot spots, and technological R&D models. The analysis shows that the digital twin technology of smart oil and gas reservoirs which goes through the whole oil and gas development process is at the rapid development stage as a whole. Global competition for innovation is currently reflected in that between China and the United States. China is the most important technological target market, predominantly characterized by enterprises, the scales of which are differentiated. The orientation of innovation has shifted to modeling of digital twin body from data sensing. Distribution of the key patented technology is concentrated in the different areas while the depth for patentees’ cooperation is limited. Focusing on the problems existing in China’s smart oil and gas reservoir digital twin technological development, this paper comes up with a series of suggestions, such as distribution of the important projects for “bottleneck” technology, fostering of high-value patents, enhancement of patent distributions overseas, creation of the innovative ecology for integrated intelligence research, and promotion of in-depth integration at the industrial level. Those suggestions aim at providing effective support for China's high-quality oil and gas industrial development and creation of new quality productive forces.

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Research on Fine Evaluation of SEC Reserves and Lean Management of Oil and Gas Assets in Old Oilfields Dai Li, Xu Xiaolin, Liu Zhenhui, Zhao Lihua, Sun Haitao, Chu Jiangtian, Li Xinhang 2024, 43(2): 95-101.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-302X.2024.02.012 Abstract ( )   PDF (2753KB) ( )   The remaining oil potential is limited in the old oilfields after years of development. To tap the potential for higher output,more investment is usually invested to expand productivity construction and carry out stimulation measures. However, the newlyadded assets coming from sustainable investment may increase the burden of oil and gas assets, thus increasing the cost of the old oilfield and even the whole oil zone and reducing the ability of the old oilfield against the risk for low oil and gas prices. To substantially improve the benefit-making ability of assets in old fields, this paper takes the typical old oilfield of A for example to make an in-depth analysis of the heavy burden of oil and gas assets caused by production differences of the internal units and management of evaluation on reserve asset unit integration. It also studies fine evaluation of SEC reserves and lean management of the oil and gas assets in old oilfields. Following making division of the reserve units for evaluation according to the production difference in the internal development zone, Oilfield A made fine evaluation of the wells of newly-constructed productivity, the measures for old wells and conversion of development modals to identify the results of incremental reserve, thus maximizing the performance of increased reserve. Meanwhile, to optimize and match the relation of reserves and asset units can accelerate depletion and impairment of the assets, precisely solve the problems of concerning the heavy burden of assets in the oilfield A and reduce the whole cost for more profit-making space, thus effectively strengthening the ability of the old field against the risk for low oil and gas prices.