The status and development strategy of coalbed methane industry in China

作者：Fengyin Xu, Wei Hou, Xianyue Xiong, Borui XU, Peng Wu, Hongya Wang, Kun Feng, Jian YUN, Qiuli Li, Lei Zhang, Xia Yan, Hui-jun Fang, Qian Lu, De-lei Mao · 发表于：Petroleum Exploration and Development · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1016/s1876-3804(23)60427-6 · 被引用次数：318 · 研究领域：Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis、Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics、Coal Properties and Utilization

To achieve the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality under the backgrounds of poor resource endowments, weak theoretical basis and other factors, the development of the coalbed methane industry of China faces many bottlenecks and challenges. This paper systematically analyzes the coalbed methane resources, key technologies and progress, exploration effect and production performance in China and abroad. The main problems are summarized as low exploration degree, low technical adaptability, low return on investment and small development scale. This study suggests that the coalbed methane industry in China should follow the “two-step” (short-term and long-term) development strategy. The short-term action before 2030, can be divided into two stages: (1) From the present to 2025, to achieve new breakthroughs in theory and technology, and accomplish the target of annual production of 10 billion cubic meters; (2) From 2025 to 2030, to form the technologies suitable for most geological conditions, further expand the industry scale, and achieve an annual output of 30 billion cubic meters, improving the proportion of coalbed methane in the total natural gas production. The long-term action after 2030 is to gradually realize an annual production of 100 billion cubic meters. The strategic countermeasure to achieve the above goals is to adhere to “technology+management dual wheel drive”, realize the synchronous progress of technology and management, and promote the high-quality de...