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Fuxin, Liaoning: urban transformation makes coal-bed methane become green wealth

November 17, 2018 15:14 | Source: Chinanet
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Taxis running on the road still start at 5 yuan more than ten years ago; The blue sky and white clouds over the city are no longer as gray as ten years ago. As the first pilot city of resource exhausted city transformation in China, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, has continuously explored the exploitation of new energy represented by coal-bed methane, and has created a solid transformation path for citizens to benefit, enterprises to develop, and ecological improvement.

"Fuxin's coal resources are exhausted. How to turn the" man eating tiger "into resources and wealth is our main purpose of developing coalbed methane," said Qin Guangsheng, chairman of Fuxin Honggekan New Energy Co., Ltd. The "man eating tiger" in his mouth is the coalbed methane commonly known as gas, the "first killer" of the coal industry. On the other hand, coalbed methane is also an important natural resource. Its calorific value is equivalent to that of natural gas, and it can be mixed with natural gas. The successful development and commercial operation of coal-bed methane by Honggekan Company produces 12 million cubic meters of coal-bed methane annually, with a daily gas supply of 30000 to 33000 cubic meters, and undertakes about one-third of the residential gas and almost all taxi gas in Fuxin City.

The reporter saw a gas station on Zhenxing Road, Haizhou District, Fuxin City, where taxis came to refuel one after another. Liu Zhanguo, the stationmaster, said that more than 4000 taxis in Fuxin City have completed the "oil to gas" project, which not only cleans and reduces pollution, but also greatly reduces the operating costs of taxis. Chen Li, the "taxi" who came to the station for gas filling, calculated a bill. Now the gas filling price is 3.4 yuan per cubic meter, and 30 yuan in the morning. He can run a day shift and less than 20 cents per kilometer.

"The starting price of 5 yuan is cheap, so we can earn money." Fuxin used to be a "city of coal and electricity", where environmental pollution was serious and the air was dirty. Chen Zhaoshan, the project leader of Hongdi Exploration Company, said, "At that time, we wore white shirts to work, and after work, the collar was black." Now Fuxin is vigorously promoting the use of new energy such as coal-bed methane, The annual emission reduction is equivalent to 1.1 million tons of carbon dioxide. Fuxin has seen blue sky and white clouds again, becoming one of the cities with the best air quality in Liaoning Province.

The development of coalbed methane has made Fuxin one of the few cities with stable gas sources in Liaoning Province. Last year, a large number of heating boilers in northern China changed from coal to gas. For a time, natural gas supply was in short supply, resulting in "gas shortage". From November 2017 to March 2018, Fuxin coal-bed gas enterprises changed the original gas supply for taxis to residential gas, and increased extraction efforts. The cumulative domestic gas supply was 5.54 million cubic meters within five months, ensuring that residents can stay warm in winter.

According to reports, Fuxin's CBM industry has grown from scratch, from weak to strong, and now has formed a complete set of CBM industry chains and new economic growth points, including exploration, extraction, transportation, compression, liquefaction, chemical industry, power generation, automobile gas filling, and residential gas. (Moxuan)

(Editor in charge: Ding Yixin, Dong Jing)

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