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Underground coal gasification and its strategic significance to the development of natural gas industry in China
Received date: 2019-03-04
Revised date: 2019-03-08
Online published: 2019-04-29
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the PetroChina Science and Technology Major Project(2019E-25)
Based on the present situation and trend of underground coal gasification in China and overseas, this article puts forward the basic concept, mechanism and mode of underground coal gasification, and presents the challenges, development potential and development path now faced. In China, underground coal gasification which is in accord with the clean utilization of coal can produce "artificial gas", which provides a new strategic approach to supply methane and hydrogen with Chinese characteristics before new energy sources offer large-scale supply. Coal measure strata in oil-bearing basins are developed in China, with 3.77 trillion tons coal reserves for the buried depth of 1 000-3 000 m. It is initially expected that the amount of natural gas resources from underground coal gasification to be 272-332 trillion cubic meters, which are about triple the sum of conventional natural gas, or equivalent to the total unconventional natural gas resources. According to the differences of coal reaction mechanism and product composition of underground coal gasification, the underground coal gasification can be divided into three development modes, hydrogen-rich in shallow, methane-rich in medium and deep, supercritical hydrogen-rich in deep. Beyond the scope of underground mining of coal enterprises, petroleum and petrochemical enterprises can take their own integration advantages of technologies, pipeline, market and so on, to develop underground coal gasification business based on their different needs and technical maturity, to effectively exploit a large amount of coal resources cleanly and to alleviate the tight supply of natural gas. It can also be combined with using the produced hydrogen in nearby area and the CO2 flooding and storage in adjacent oil areas to create a demonstration zone for net zero emissions of petroleum and petrochemical recycling economy. It is significant for reserving resources and technologies for the coming "hydrogen economy" era, and opening up a new path for China's "clean, low carbon, safe and efficient" modern energy system construction.
Caineng ZOU , Yanpeng CHEN , Lingfeng KONG , Fenjin SUN , Shanshan CHEN , Zhen DONG . Underground coal gasification and its strategic significance to the development of natural gas industry in China[J]. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2019 , 46(2) : 205 -215 . DOI: 10.1016/S1876-3804(19)60002-9
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