"Natural gas prices," the rapid spread of rumors, the place caught on and grab the gas. National Development and Reform Commission had first to come forward to clarify, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Shandong and other local price departments collectively announced that natural gas prices is a false rumor, the clear living gas no adjustment in the near future, in order to heal the public mood.
But the price department of the same period, Nantong, Jiangsu, Tianjin and other places, a notice of intention to convene hearings on gas prices in April, intends to raise the gas price of 0.33 yuan / cubic meter, respectively, 0.20 yuan / cubic meter.
Local intensive hearings is to complement the old account in a new round of price reform before June 1, 2010, the NDRC raised the wellhead benchmark price of 0.23 yuan / cubic meter, inflationary pressures and macro-control, in some places downstream and no synchronization mention price. "an industry expert said.
In addition to the above-mentioned cities, on December 1 last year, Beijing, Xuzhou, Haikou and other places, have announced increases in gas prices, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan and began to implement a stepped gas prices, improve residents with gas costs.
A city gas industry, said: "At present, the domestic price of natural gas is low, the price adjustment is consensus. Reform of the national gas price start upstream Price start, if the upstream gas purchase cost is too high, the greater the difficulty of downstream sales price Shun price.
China's natural gas terminal sales price, including the ex-factory price, the price of long-distance pipelines, urban transmission and distribution prices. Prices by the National Development and Reform Commission to develop a benchmark price piped pricing by the government, the terminal sales price was formulated after a hearing by the local price departments.
One of the motives of the domestic gas price reform, the continuing losses of the imported gas. According to the data of the National Development and Reform Commission, the 2012 domestic natural gas production of 107.7 billion cubic meters, up 6.5%; imports of natural gas (including LNG) of 42.5 billion cubic meters, an increase of 31.1%.
PetroChina is the largest domestic pipeline gas importers, according to its 2012 annual report, when the sales of imported natural gas and LNG loss of about 41.9 billion yuan, resulting in the natural gas and pipeline segment operating loss of 2.1 billion yuan, compared with 2011 operating profit of 15.53 billion yuan to 17.64 billion yuan lower .
Tong XG, Chinese Academy of Engineering, said: "due to the unreasonable pricing of imported gas reaches the border price even higher than some cities terminal sales price when international oil prices to 80 U.S. dollars / barrel, the Central Asian gas to reach the Xinjiang Hall Hawes Port price 2.46 yuan / cubic meter, higher than Beijing 2.28 yuan / cubic meters of domestic gas prices. preliminary estimates, about imported pipeline gas per cubic meter loss is still a loss in domestic gas profits to offset. "
Sinopec experts also said to the reporter: "some profits in the domestic gas can digest some of the imported gas price difference due to the natural gas involves a wide social audience, industrial economy, price reform than refined oil carefully."
The ultimate goal of the country to promote natural gas price changes, release the natural gas prices by market competition, the government only on the middle and lower reaches of the price regulation of the natural monopoly nature of the natural gas pipeline.
Insiders told reporters Development and Reform Commission, the face of the prices of rumor, the price reform program will further improve and then submitted to the State Council. "One of the options discussed is determined around the of industrial incremental gas and the stock of gas prices in some parts of the gas price in one step, linked to crude oil and other similar products, industrial gas prices will increase to 3 yuan / cubic meter, but strict restrictions on their gas prices, in accordance with the price hearing process to determine the price. "