Monday, 18 Apr 2011
China imports of natural gas more than doubled in the first quarter compared with a year earlier as the world biggest energy consumer expanded use of the cleaner burning fuel.
The Beijing based National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement that gas purchases reached 6.3 billion cubic meters in the first three months, comprising 3.1 billion cubic meters of piped supplies from Central Asia and 3.2 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas.
The NDRC said China wants to triple the use of natural gas to about 10% of its energy consumption by 2020 as it cuts reliance on more-polluting coal. Imports met 19% of the nation natural gas demand in the first quarter up by 7.6 percentage points from a year earlier.
The NDRC said apparent gas demand, or net imports plus production and excluding inventories jumped 21% in the first quarter from a year earlier to 33.3 billion cubic meters.
Source: http://www.steelguru.com/chinese_news/Chinese_Q1_gas_imports_more_than_double_-_NDRC/200898.html
China imports of natural gas more than doubled in the first quarter compared with a year earlier as the world biggest energy consumer expanded use of the cleaner burning fuel.
The Beijing based National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement that gas purchases reached 6.3 billion cubic meters in the first three months, comprising 3.1 billion cubic meters of piped supplies from Central Asia and 3.2 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas.
The NDRC said China wants to triple the use of natural gas to about 10% of its energy consumption by 2020 as it cuts reliance on more-polluting coal. Imports met 19% of the nation natural gas demand in the first quarter up by 7.6 percentage points from a year earlier.
The NDRC said apparent gas demand, or net imports plus production and excluding inventories jumped 21% in the first quarter from a year earlier to 33.3 billion cubic meters.
Source: http://www.steelguru.com/chinese_news/Chinese_Q1_gas_imports_more_than_double_-_NDRC/200898.html
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