JOHN GOSS

摘要

With China relying on coal for some 70 percent of its energy use it is switching the focus to gas and we will see rapid growth in the usage of unconventional gases including coal-bed methane (CBM), shale gas and flammable gas during the next decade. The country's consumption of coal-bed methane is expected to be as much as 23 billion cubic meters (cu m) in 2020, which would account for 0.7 percent of Chinas energy mix by then. As for the development of the shale gas, the country's annual use is expected to be something like 15 billion cu m by 2020, which is 0.45 percent of total energy consumption.