液化天然气——中国进口天然气的“天然”选择

LNG-the 'natural' choice for Chinese gas imports

尽管全球经济形式并不乐观，在接下来的几年里，中国经济却依旧被看好，其对能源的需求也很可能会大幅上升。中国政府正努力缓解能源紧张的局面．在十二五（2011—2015）规划中，中国将天然气在能源一次性消耗的比重从2010年的似提高到2015年的8％。与煤和石油相比。天然气在燃烧时能产生较少污染，是一种清洁能源。

Despite the precarious state of the global economy,China is still expected to grow significantly over the next few years,and its demand for energy is also likely to rise considerably.The government intends to lower the energy intensity of the economy,and the latest Five Year Plan (2011-2015) aims to raise natural gas's share of energy consumption from 4% in 2010 to 8% in 2015,with natural gas a cleaner fuel than coal or oil when burnt.Moreover,six additional onshore regasification facilities are under construction,in addition to the five existing regasification terminals in China.All of these are being built by state owned oil corporations,suggesting at least tacit governmental support for heightened LNG imports.This was supported further by the government's decision to introduce a price rebate for gas importers in August in order to narrow the gap between what they spend to buy LNG and what they sell the gas for domestically.With factors such as these and those discussed above in their favour,it looks highly likely that Chinese LNG imports will continue to increase.