Chapter 1017: A Feast of Technology
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Although it is really enjoyable to watch beautiful women play tennis. But Fan Wu's illness was so much that he soon received a call from the Russian side to discuss plans to import Russian gas and oil into Chinese mainland through pipelines.
"Oh, I've got to go back, it's a bit big this time." Fan Wuxian said to Ziqi.
In fact, this time the matter is indeed bigger, in the history that Fan Wuxian has experienced, China has three routes of west-to-east natural gas.
The early West-to-East Gas Transmission Project was approved by the State Council at its first meeting in February this year, and this was another major investment project second only to the Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River, and it was also a landmark construction project that opened the prelude to the large-scale development of the western region.
The planned west-to-east gas transmission line, with a total length of about 4,200 kilometers and an investment scale of more than 140 billion yuan, is currently the longest and largest gas transmission pipeline in China. The pipeline has a diameter of 1016 mm, a design pressure of 10 megapascals, and an annual design capacity of 12 billion cubic meters.
This west-to-east gas transmission line starts from the Tarimlunnan oil and gas field in Xinjiang in the west, traverses nine provinces and regions including Xinjiang, Gansu, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, and ends in Shanghai.
The second line of the West-East Gas Pipeline starts from Khorgos in Xinjiang in the west and passes through Xi'an and Nanchang. It goes south to Guangzhou and east to Shanghai, passing through 13 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. The total length of the main line is 4,859 kilometers, and the total length of the pipeline is more than 7,000 kilometers, plus several branch lines.
The third natural gas pipeline from the west to the east is basically determined to reach Fujian from Xinjiang through Jiangxi, and transport natural gas from Russia and northwest China to the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, which have huge energy demand.
However, due to the appearance of Fan Wuxi, the cooperation with Russia has suddenly become closer, especially after Fan Wuzhi obtained the right to develop oil and gas resources after providing Putin with an interest-free loan of 50 billion US dollars, and at this time, the third west-to-east gas transmission line that appeared later in history will be advanced.
Because this is a big event, Fan Wuxian must first say hello to the State Council and coordinate some of the work links before he can start construction.
Fan Wuxian looked at the time, now it is just the appearance of just going to work in the afternoon, it will take a long time to wait for my father to come home, it is better to find it directly, and the investment in this matter will not be small, I always have to sit with the high-level people and talk carefully.
So he went directly to the door, went directly to the State Council, and after contacting his father through the general office, he went directly to his office and waited.
Fan Heng and the others were in a meeting, probably focusing on learning something, and after waiting for more than half an hour, they saw Boss Zhu coming over with his father Fan Heng, as well as a few vice premiers. Some talked and laughed, and after seeing Fan Wuxian, they greeted him with a smile.
"Since all the leaders are here, can you sit together for a few minutes? I have some important business to declare here. Fan Wuxian saw that the team of the State Council was basically ready, so he simply proposed.
"What's the matter, so anxious?" Boss Zhu was very interested.
"The cooperation between me and Russia has been finalized, and now I am ready to send Russian natural gas directly to the mainland through pipelinesβ" Fan Wuxian said to the crowd very directly.
"Huh?!" Everyone was stunned after hearing this, no one thought that the domestic west-to-east gas transmission was just a beginning, and Fan Wuxian took the lead in realizing cooperation with Russia, planning to bring in Russian natural gas through the pipeline.
"In fact, I originally planned to bring in oil by pipeline at the same time, but then I thought that the problem would be bigger, so I introduced natural gas first, and as for oil, I planned to build a few refineries on the spot, and then transport the finished products back, or directly transport the crude oil back to the northwest through the railway channel, and build several refineries to digest." Fan Wuxi simply said all his thoughts directly, and then let everyone digest them slowly.
Everyone was indeed stunned for a while before coming back to their senses, and the west-to-east gas transmission is of great significance for adjusting the domestic energy structure and promoting the improvement of the environmental situation.
12 billion cubic meters of natural gas is equivalent to 9 million tons of standard coal, which can reduce air pollution emissions by 135,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, 153,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, and 270,000 tons of dust every year. Therefore, the eastern part of the country is very much welcome to the West-East Gas Transmission Project. The development of the eastern region is indeed in great need of the West-East Gas Transmission Project.
At the same time, the West-East Gas Transmission Project is also conducive to expanding domestic demand, increasing employment, promoting the development of metallurgy, machinery, electric power, chemical industry, building materials and other related industries, and promoting the construction of natural gas-related industries and system engineering.
Natural gas is a green energy, it is clean, sulfur dioxide, dust emissions are close to zero, carbon dioxide emissions are also very low, almost no pollution, the development and utilization of natural gas is also an important direction of the world's energy development, now the proportion of natural gas in energy utilization has risen to more than 25%.
"What does Vice Premier Zeng think?" Boss Zhu first asked Vice Premier Zeng, who was in charge of the west-to-east gas transmission work.
"That's a good thing!" Although Vice Premier Zeng has not yet seen Fan Wuxi's detailed plan, what he blurted out is a positive attitude.
The initial annual gas supply capacity of the West-East Gas Transmission Project will reach about 12 billion cubic meters, and the gas supply will be gradually increased with the deepening of resource exploration and the development of the downstream gas market.
The most important thing is that this project will greatly accelerate the economic development of Xinjiang and the regions along the central and western regions, correspondingly increase fiscal revenue and employment opportunities, bring huge economic and social benefits, and will also promote the adjustment of the energy structure and industrial structure, and promote the development of iron and steel, building materials, petrochemical industry, electric power, and other related unemployed industries. Cities along the Belt and Road can use clean fuels to replace some fuel oil and coal used by power plants, kilns, chemical enterprises and residents, improving the atmospheric environment and improving people's quality of life.
However, the biggest problem of the West-East Gas Transmission Project is that the investment is relatively large, including the exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the construction of gas pipelines, urban pipeline networks, industrial utilization and other related projects, and the preliminary forecast is that the investment in the first phase will reach about 120 billion yuan.
According to preliminary estimates, the project will use 1.74 million tons of steel, consume 5,100 tons of welding rods, excavate and fill more than 30 million cubic meters of earth and stone, and require a large amount of water, wood, air pumps, instrumentation and automation equipment.
Since more than two-thirds of the pipelines of the West-East Gas Transmission Project are under construction in the western region, the investment in fixed assets in the Xinjiang gas field will be more than 20 billion yuan, and this kind of capital investment will promote local economic development, increase fiscal revenue, and provide a large number of employment opportunities, and at the same time, it will also promote economic ties between the west and the east.
Now Fan Wuxian actually wants to import natural gas directly from Russia. This investment should be only a lot more, after all, the investment in the pipe network is a big one, and it always takes more than 200 billion yuan to do this.
Vice Premier Zeng is worthy of engaging in technology, and after a short period of stunned, he immediately raised a lot of questions, "The most important thing in the West-East Gas Transmission Project is the pipeline, compared with the current domestic pipelines, this kind of pipeline has six characteristics, one is the highest design pressure, the second is the largest transmission volume, the third is the longest distance, the fourth is the highest grade of steel used, the fifth is the largest investment, and the sixth is the most provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions that have passed." At the same time, the geological conditions along the pipeline are complex and diverse, passing through various landforms such as deserts, Gobi, saline soils, loess gullies, mountainous areas, hills, plains, and water networks. The transportation and construction conditions are difficult. The whole line crosses the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and other large rivers more than 200 times, and also crosses the Tianshan Mountains, Jiangnan hills and other hills, a total of more than 70 mountain tunnels need to be set up. The Yangtze River, Ganjiang River, Qiantang River, Beijiang River, Xijiang River and other large rivers crossing, as well as the Guozigou Tunnel, Meiling Tunnel, Deep Water Tunnel, etc., are difficult and risky to design and construct. β
The start-up of the West-East Gas Transmission Project requires a large number of steel pipe materials as support, and the project requires most of the construction steel to be made of low-carbon or ultra-low-carbon microalloyed steel, and the pipeline project requires a large pipe diameter, high-pressure rich gas transportation, high cold and corrosive service environment. Therefore, pipeline steel should have high strength, low enveloping effect, high toughness and resistance to brittle breakage, low welding carbon content and good weldability, as well as resistance to HIC and H2S corrosion.
"At present, most of our domestic production pipes, there is still a certain gap in the pressure value, which is a big problem." Vice Premier Zeng said to Fan Wuxian. "Once the two lines are started, the supply capacity will definitely not be able to keep up."
Fan Wuxian nodded and said, "What Vice Premier Zeng said is very right, but we must also see that in fact, this project is undoubtedly a technical feast for the steel industry, steel pipe manufacturing industry, and steel pipe equipment manufacturing industry, and it is also a new starting point for China's oil and gas steel pipe steel production enterprises, steel pipe production enterprises, and steel pipe production equipment manufacturing enterprises to improve their scientific and technological level and move from domestic to international." In addition, in addition to the steel used for the West-East Gas Pipeline, there are ancillary facilities supporting it. The construction of all urban pipeline networks along the more than 5,000 kilometers, oil and gas processing, storage facilities and other related projects, the demand for steel will be further increased, and this market is huge. Therefore, we should carry out technological transformation of some large domestic steel enterprises in a timely manner, or directly build a number of large-scale new steel enterprises with a high starting point? β
During the time they were talking, some staff members had already sent over more detailed statistics, and in Fan Heng's office, everyone began to discuss, and some experts rushed over to project some data on the projection.
A senior expert of the State Council introduced to the audience: "According to estimates, China's annual natural gas consumption will rise at a rate of 15 percent, and in 30 years, China's natural gas consumption will increase from the current 45 billion cubic meters per year to 300 billion cubic meters, and in 50 years, the consumption will increase to 450 billion cubic meters." At the same time, the increase in oil consumption in our country will be even greater. In the next 10 years, a total of 50,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipelines will be built, an average of nearly 5,000 kilometers per year, and 4 million tons of steel will be needed to lay natural gas pipelines alone. β
"Such a large demand, if you add the pipeline laid back from Russia, it is estimated that the demand will double-" Boss Zhu suddenly asked with some hesitation after hearing this, "Can the supply be raised?" β
The expert replied, "although since the eighties of the last century, China has introduced more than 30 resistance welded pipe production lines from abroad, after years of practice, the level of equipment technology has been greatly improved, and the product quality is also constantly improving. β
"What does Mr. Fan think about this?" Boss Zhu asked.
In fact, there is now a consensus that for Russia's oil and gas resources, how much to have, can use as much natural gas as possible, you can save as much coal and oil resources as possible, compared with the storage of more troublesome natural gas resources, coal and oil are easier to collect as strategic reserves.
Therefore, after mentioning that he was discussing with Russia about the introduction of natural gas through the pipeline. Everyone thinks it's very interesting, and it seems that the price here is cheaper, and the quality is better.
Once the technology upgrade is completed, we can unite the iron and steel enterprises in Panshi, Jiangnan Province and Lingxi Province to form a large pipeline production group to supply this part of the demand, plus the first phase of the shipping channel of Jiangshan Port has begun to be used, overseas high-quality iron ore can be continuously transported in, specifically to meet this part of the demand, So I don't think the problem of pipeline demand is big. β
In fact, the technical problem, Fan Wuxian is not too worried, after all, this matter is naturally someone to worry about, he is now concerned about the problem, that is, PetroChina has in fact monopolized the West-East Gas Transmission Project, although because the previous high-level was dissatisfied with them and deliberately knocked out, but after all, this is a state-owned enterprise, and it is a central enterprise.
The biggest obstacle now is to remove these institutional obstacles before they can confidently and boldly carry out the west-to-east gas transmission project.
Otherwise, without the government's policy permission, you can't do what you want to do?
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