THE COMPARISON OF SALT MINING AREA MANAGEMENT AND BRINE CAVERNS SURVEYING IN CHINA AND GERMANY

摘要

Through investigation on salt mining management departments, brine companies and brine cavern surveying company in China and Germany, a comparison is made to show the difference in mining laws, regulations, standards and brine caverns surveying between two countries. As results, salt mining management and brine caverns surveying have become regularization and standardization system in the legal and actual practice aspects in Germany. Brine caverns shape control and brine caverns fields information management are the characteristics of the system. Its core is a sustainable development system based on the full use and conservation of natural resources. In china, salt mining management adopts the same rules for coalmining, so there aren't specific provisions for salt mining management and brine caverns surveying in laws and standards. Because it doesn't take into account of the specificity of salt mining, it is not suitable for the case. With the extensive application of brine caverns in reserving fossil oil and gas and the further developing of brine caverns surveying technique, brine caverns surveying has been established in law as an important method of salt mining area management in developed country. In order to make full use and protection of natural resource, obtaining sustainable development, it is high time that the China government should take action and combine with the successful experience in Germany to develop salt mining management system and brine caverns surveying standards in China.