我国天然气消费区分散且主要以产地为中心,产量和运输条件的限制又使天然气需求处于抑制状态。在天然气利用方面:化工原料用气比例大;油气开采用气比重过高;天然气发电及民用比例较小;天然气汽车尚处于产业发展阶段。随着国民经济的进一步发展,今后20年将是我国天然气工业大发展的时期,预计到2000年和2010年我国商品天然气供给量将分别达到300亿立方米和1000亿立方米。我们要以现有的天然气消费地为基地,加速形成华东、东北、东南沿海、西北和四川盆地几个天然气区域性消费市场。借鉴国外先进经验,加快天然气在发电、城市燃气和天然气汽车方面的应用,并加速以天然气为原料的化工开发。 China’s natural gas consumption zone is scattered and mainly centered on its origin. Restrictions on output and transportation conditions in turn put the demand for natural gas at a standstill. In terms of utilization of natural gas: a large proportion of gas used in chemical raw materials; an excessively high specific gravity of oil and gas exploitation; a smaller proportion of natural gas power generation and civil use; natural gas vehicles are still in the stage of industrial development. With the further development of the national economy, the next 20 years will be a period of great development of China’s natural gas industry. It is estimated that by the year 2000 and 2010, the supply of natural gas to China will reach 30 billion cubic meters and 100 billion cubic meters respectively. Based on the current consumption of natural gas, we will accelerate the formation of several natural gas consumer markets in eastern, northeastern, southeast coast, northwest and Sichuan basins. Learn from advanced foreign experience and speed up the application of natural gas in power generation, city gas and natural gas vehicles and speed up the development of chemical industry using natural gas as raw material.