The Research On Our Country's Natural Gas Pricing

In recent decades the world's natural gas industry has developed rapidly, the ratio in the world's primary energy has been rising. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast, the gas will surpass the petroleum and the coal. In the 21st century, the natural gas will become "the chief energy" in a world energy consumption pattern. Therefore, many experts say the 21st century as "the century of natural gas."The extended application of natural gas energy conforms to our country energy developmental strategy in the 21st century, but the gas industry health development needs a set of perfect natural gas pricing to make the safeguard. How to make optimum use of the natural gas, maximizing the economic, social and environmental benefits, finally depends on price chain, which is the key in the natural gas pricing. The market tendency for the natural gas pricing and the socialization should be our country natural gas pricing development tendency.The article by analyzing the problem of the upper stream, the middle, the downstream pricing on our country natural gas, gives some feasible proposals and the opinion. In the upper stream, the article propose to abolish the "dual track" and to choose capable developer develops natural gas resources in order to reduce developmental cost and to establish indexation formula to link natural gas wellhead price with other energy price. In the middle, setting up "the third entry" system, separating the sale operations from pipeline transportation. Departing pipeline transportation cost into two departments, and making it more transparent. In the downstream, distinguishing the type of gas users, not neglecting the interests of small users. We establish the upper stream manufacturers and downstream consumer mechanism for dialogue to determine the price of natural gas. The paper uses fuzzy math to determine the attribution of the "fixed cost" and "variable cost ". The article give the natural gas pipeline company some reference for having a more reasonable distribution pipeline cost, causing consumers to take a more reasonable cost.