.Youran is really addicted to watching a beautiful woman play tennis, but Fan Dan's illness is really annoying. Soon after, he received a call from the Russian side to discuss plans to import Russian natural gas and oil into mainland China through pipelines.

"Oh, I have to go back. This time the matter is a bit big." Fan Wubing said to Huiqi.

In fact, this time the incident is indeed quite big. In the history that Fan Wubing has experienced, China has three West-East Gas Pipeline Lines.

The early West-East Gas Pipeline was the West-East Gas Pipeline Project approved and launched by the first meeting of the State Council in February this year. It is another major investment project second only to the Three Gorges Project in the Yangtze River and is also a landmark construction project that kicked off the western region.

The planned West-East Gas Pipeline has a total length of about kilometers and a investment scale of more than 100 million yuan. It is currently the longest distance and largest diameter in China. The diameter of the pipeline is 6 mm, the design pressure is 6 mm, the annual design output is 100 million cubic meters, and the entire line adopts automated control, and the gas supply range covers the Central Plains, East China, and the Yangtze River Delta.

This West-East Gas Pipeline Line starts from the Tarimlunnan Oil and Gas Field in Xinjiang in the west, and runs across nine provinces and regions including Xinjiang, Gansu, Jiangsu, and Shanghai. The end point is Shanghai.

The second line of West-East Gas Pipeline starts from Horgos in Xinjiang in the west, passes through Xi'an, Nanchang, goes south to Guangzhou, and ends in Shanghai in the east, passing through thirteen provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government. The total length of the trunk line is quite kilometers, plus several branch lines, the total length of the pipeline is kilometers wide.

The third natural gas pipeline for the West-East Gas Pipeline is basically determined to arrive from Xinjiang through Jiangxi to Fujian, and to transport natural gas from Russia and northwestern China to the Yangtze River Delta Prefecture and the Pearl River Delta region with huge energy demand.

However, due to the emergence of Fan Wubing, cooperation with Russia suddenly became closer. Especially after Fan Wubing provided Putin with an interest-free loan of 50 billion US dollars, he obtained the right to open oil and gas resources. At this time, the third West-East Gas Transportation Line that appeared later in history was to be promoted.

Because this is a big event, Fan Wubing must first say hello to the State Council and coordinate some of the work links before construction can start.

Fan Wubing looked at the time. It was just like he had just started work in the afternoon. It would take a long time to wait for his father to come home. Why not just look for it? Besides, the investment in this matter is not good. He always has to sit with the senior executives and have a careful talk.

So he came to the door and went directly to the State Council. After contacting his father through the General Office, he went directly to his office and waited.

Fan Heng and the others were having a meeting, probably studying something. After waiting for more than half an hour, they saw Boss Zhu and his father Fan Heng coming together. There were also several vice premiers, talking and laughing. After seeing Fan Wubing, they all smiled and greeted him with a smile.

"Since all the leaders are here, can you sit together for a few minutes? I have to apply for some important business here." When Fan Wubing saw that the State Council team was basically all here, he simply suggested.

"What's the matter? I'm so anxious?" Boss Zhu was very interested.

"The cooperation between me and Russia has been finalized. Now I am going to transport Russian natural gas directly to the mainland through pipelines," Fan Wubing said to everyone very directly.

"Ah?!" Everyone was stunned after hearing this. No one expected that the domestic West-East Gas Pilot just started, and Fan Wubing took the lead in achieving cooperation with Russia, intending to bring Russian natural gas in through pipelines.

"In fact, I originally planned to bring in oil through pipelines at the same time, but later considering that this problem would be a little bigger, I introduced natural gas first. As for oil, I planned to build several refineries on site, then transport the finished products back, or transport the crude oil directly back to the northwest through railway channels, and build several refineries for digestion." Fan Wubing simply said all his thoughts and let everyone digest them slowly.

Everyone was indeed stunned for a moment before they came to their senses. The West-East Gas Pipeline is of great significance to adjusting the structure of domestic energy and promoting the improvement of environmental conditions.

12 billion cubic meters of natural gas is equivalent to 9 million tons of standard coal, which can reduce the emission of atmospheric dust by 135,000 tons, sulphur dioxide, 153,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, and 270,000 tons of dust each year. Therefore, the east is very welcome to the West-East Gas Pipeline Project. The exhibition in the eastern region does require the West-East Gas Pipeline Project very much.

At the same time, the West-East Gas Pipeline Project is also conducive to expanding domestic demand, increasing employment, promoting the development of related industries such as metallurgy, machinery, electricity, chemicals, building materials, etc., and promoting the construction of natural gas-related industries and system projects.

Natural gas is a green energy source. Its cleanness, sulfur dioxide and dust emissions are close to zero, and carbon dioxide emissions are also very low. There is almost no pollution. The utilization of natural gas is also an important direction of the current world energy exhibition. For example, the proportion of natural gas in energy utilization has increased to more than 25%.

"What do you think of Vice Premier Zeng?" Boss Zhu first asked Vice Premier Zeng, who is responsible for the West-East Gas Pipeline.

"This is a good thing!" Although Vice Premier Zeng has not seen Fan Wubing's detailed plan, what he blurted out was a positive attitude.

The annual gas supply in the early stages of the West-East Gas Pipeline Project can reach about 12 billion cubic meters. In the future, the gas supply will be gradually increased with the deepening of resource exploration and the development of the downstream gas use market.

The most important thing is that this project will greatly accelerate the economic development in Xinjiang and the central and western regions, increase fiscal revenue and employment opportunities accordingly, bring huge economic and social benefits, and promote the adjustment of the energy structure and industrial structure, and drive the exhibition of unemployed related unemployed steel, building materials, petrochemicals, electricity and other power. Cities along the route can use clean fuel to replace some power plants, kiln chemical enterprises and residents to use fuel and coal needles to improve the atmospheric environment and improve people's quality of life.

However, the biggest problem with the West-East Gas Pipeline Project is that the investment is relatively large, including the exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the construction of gas pipelines, urban pipelines, industrial utilization and other related projects. It is initially predicted that the first phase of investment will reach about 120 billion yuan.

According to preliminary estimates, the project will use tons of steel and consume 5 tons of welding rods. The amount of earth and rock excavation is over ten thousand cubic meters, and a large amount of water, wood, gas and mercury are needed, and the instruments are required.

Since more than two-thirds of the pipelines of the West-East Gas Pipeline Project are built in the western region, the fixed asset investment in Xinjiang gas fields is more than 20 billion yuan. After this investment, it can drive local economic development, increase fiscal revenue, and provide a large number of employment opportunities. It will also promote economic ties between the west and the east.

Now Fan Wubing wants to directly introduce natural gas from Russia, and this investment should be only a lot more or less. After all, the investment in the pipeline is a big deal. I think it will always take more than 200 billion yuan to accomplish this.

Vice Premier Zeng is worthy of being a technical person. After a brief moment of confusion, he immediately raised a lot of questions, "The most important thing in the West-East Gas Pipeline Project is pipelines. Compared with the pipelines that have been built in China, this kind of pipeline has six major characteristics: one is the highest design pressure, the second is the largest output, and the third is the longest distance. The fourth is the highest grade of steel used, the fifth is the largest investment, and the sixth is the most provinces, cities, and autonomous regions passing through. At the same time, the geological conditions along the pipeline are much more complex.

It is like passing through various landforms such as deserts, Gobi, salt clear soil, loess ditch, mountainous areas, hills, plains, and nets. Transportation and construction conditions are difficult. The entire line crosses the Yangtze River and the Yellow River and other large rivers, and has to cross the Tianshan Mountains and the hills in the south of the Yangtze River. More than 70 mountain passes are required. Large rivers such as the Yangtze River, Ganjiang River, Qiantang River, Beijiang River, and Xijiang River cross the Guozigou Pass, Meiling Tunnel, and Deep Water Ridge Road. The construction is difficult and risky."

The start of the West-East Gas Pipe Project requires a large amount of steel pipe materials as support. The project requires that most construction steels use low-carbon or low-carbon microalloyed steel. Pipeline projects require large pipe diameters, high pressure and gas-rich transport, high cold and corrosion service environments. Therefore, pipeline steel should have high strength, low envelope effect, high toughness and brittle breaking resistance, low welding carbon quantity and good welding properties, and fly corrosion resistance.

"At present, most of the pipes produced in China have a three-determined gap in pressure values, which is a big problem." Vice Premier Zeng said to Fan Wubing, "Once the two lines start construction, the supply capacity will definitely not keep up."

Fan Wubing nodded. "Vice Premier Zeng said it well, but we must also see that in fact, this project is undoubtedly a feast of technology for the steel industry, steel pipe manufacturing industry, and steel pipe equipment manufacturing industry. It is also a new thing for my country's oil and gas steel pipe steel production enterprises, steel pipe production and equipment manufacturing enterprises to improve their own technological level and move from domestic to international. In addition, in addition to steel for the West-East Gas Pipeline, the auxiliary facilities provided by it, and all urban pipeline network construction, oil and gas processing, storage facilities construction and other related projects over 5,000 kilometers along the route. The demand for steel will be further increased, and this is a great success. Therefore, we should carry out technological transformation of some large domestic steel companies in a timely manner, or directly build a number of larger and higher new steel companies?"

During the period when they were talking, some staff had already sent more detailed statistics. In Fan Heng's office, everyone started to discuss, and experts who rushed over projected some data on the projection.

A senior expert from the State Council introduced to everyone, "According to estimates, my country's annual natural gas consumption will increase by 15% of the year. By 30 years, my country's natural gas consumption will increase from the current 45 billion cubic meters per year to 30 billion cubic meters, and in 50 years the consumption will increase to 450 billion cubic meters. At the same time, my country's oil consumption will increase even greater. In the next ten years, a total of 50,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipelines will be built, and an average of nearly 5,000 kilometers will be laid every year. The steel required to lay natural gas pipelines alone will reach 4 million tons."

"Such a large demand. If the pipelines laid back from Russia were added, the demand would probably double. Boss Zhu, who heard this, immediately asked hesitantly, "Can the supply be increased?"

The expert replied, "Although my country has introduced more than 30 resistance welded pipe production lines from abroad since the 1980s. After years of practice, the equipment technology level has been greatly improved and the product quality has been continuously improved. This part of the products has grown from fluid delivery pipes, structural pipes, and oil well pipes in the field of seamless pipe applications, but there is still a relatively large gap from the current demand."

"What do you think about this?" asked Boss Zhu.

In fact, everyone has a consensus now, that is, for Russia's oil and gas resources, as much as possible, and to use as much natural gas as possible, you can save as much butterfly carbon and oil resources as possible. Compared with natural gas resources that are more troublesome to store, coal and oil are easier to collect as strategic reserves.

Therefore, after Ba Fan Wubing proposed that he was discussing with Russia about introducing natural gas through pipelines, everyone felt that it was very interesting, and it seemed that the price here was cheaper and the quality was better.

Fan Wubing replied. "At present, the steel companies under Fan's Investment Group are working hard to develop technical research and they can quickly come up with products that meet the requirements. Once the technology upgrade is completed, we can unite the steel companies in Panshi, Jiangnan Province and Lingxi Province to form a large pipeline production group. We can supply this part of the demand at full capacity, and in addition to Jiangshan, the first phase of the port sea transportation channel has begun to be used. High-quality iron ore from overseas can be transported in continuously to meet this part of the demand, so I think the problem of pipeline demand is not big.

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In fact, Fan Wubing is not worried about technical issues. After all, there are naturally people who are worried about this matter. The issue he is concerned about now is that China National Petroleum Corporation has actually cut off the West-East Gas Pipeline Project. Although he deliberately criticized it because the senior management in front of him was dissatisfied with them, this is a state-owned enterprise after all. And a central enterprise.

I suddenly rushed in and wanted to introduce the construction of natural gas pipelines from Russia, which obviously surprised the senior management. The biggest obstacle now is to clear these institutional obstacles first so that I can safely and boldly carry out the West-East Gas Pipeline Project.
Chapter completed!