PipeChina

PipeChina, formally China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Corporation (国家石油天然气管网集团有限公司), is a Chinese state-owned company focused on oil and natural gas transportation infrastructure. The company was established on December 9, 2019, with approval from the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, as part of reforms to the country’s energy and pipeline operating systems. It is headquartered in Beijing. The supplied company profile describes it as a key state-owned backbone enterprise supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. PipeChina invests in, builds and operates oil and gas trunk pipelines and related infrastructure, including gas storage and LNG receiving facilities. Its responsibilities include connecting trunk pipelines with one another and with third-party pipelines, coordinating the operation and dispatch of the national oil and gas network, and disclosing available pipeline transportation capacity and capacity at LNG receiving terminals and gas storage facilities. The company says infrastructure is to be made available to users on a fair and non-discriminatory basis. The company profile reports a network of 112,900 kilometres of oil and gas pipelines: 63,800 kilometres of natural gas pipelines, 22,100 kilometres of crude oil pipelines and 27,000 kilometres of refined-product pipelines. It says this network covers 30 provincial-level regions and Hong Kong, and that the company has eight underground gas storage facilities and ten LNG receiving terminals. These figures are those published in the supplied profile and are not independently updated here. PipeChina presents its purpose as serving national strategy, public needs and the energy industry. Its stated strategic priorities include market-based operation, platform development, technology and digitalization, and management innovation. The company aims to operate an interconnected national network and an open infrastructure platform, supporting a market structure in which multiple upstream suppliers use a unified, efficiently operated midstream network while downstream sales remain competitive. Its role is infrastructure transportation, storage and system operation, rather than the retail sale of oil or gas.

PipeChina was established during a reform of China’s oil and gas pipeline operating system. According to the company’s official profile, the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council approved the creation of China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Corporation, which formally came into existence on December 9, 2019. Its headquarters were established in Beijing. The stated reform context was to advance changes to the country’s energy system and to the operating arrangements for oil and gas pipelines. A major transition from establishment to operation followed in 2020. On September 30, PipeChina and the three major oil companies, together with six state-owned investment institutions, held a signing ceremony for the transfer of oil and gas pipeline assets and the handover of operations. The company says it began substantive operations on October 1, 2020. The supplied profile characterizes its subsequent role as that of a nationwide infrastructure operator, responsible for investing in, constructing and operating trunk pipeline networks and gas storage and peak-shaving infrastructure. The company’s remit combines physical network operation with coordination and access responsibilities. It connects trunk pipelines with each other and with third-party pipelines, coordinates dispatch across the national oil and gas network, and publishes information on remaining pipeline capacity, LNG receiving-terminal processing capacity and gas storage capacity. PipeChina describes fair and non-discriminatory access to infrastructure as part of its operating approach. This places it in the midstream infrastructure segment, between upstream oil and gas supply and downstream sales. The official profile reports a portfolio of 112,900 kilometres of oil and gas pipelines, comprising natural gas, crude oil and refined-product pipelines. It also reports coverage across 30 provincial-level regions and Hong Kong, together with eight underground gas storage facilities and ten LNG receiving terminals. The figures illustrate the scale of the network described by the company, but the supplied material does not provide a separate date for those asset counts. PipeChina’s stated corporate purpose is to serve national strategy, public needs and the development of the energy industry. It identifies market-based operation, platform development, technology and digitalization, and management innovation as strategic priorities. Its longer-term stated objective is to develop an interconnected national pipeline network and an open infrastructure platform, and to support an oil and gas market structure in which multiple upstream suppliers feed into a unified, efficiently operated network and downstream sales remain competitive. The company website continues to publish corporate, infrastructure-project, operational and public-notice information under the PipeChina and 国家管网集团 identities.

• PipeChina formally established

  [1]集团简介_国家石油天然气管网集团有限公司pipechina.com.cn
• Pipeline asset transfer and operational handover ceremony

  [1]集团简介_国家石油天然气管网集团有限公司pipechina.com.cn
• Substantive operations began

  [1]集团简介_国家石油天然气管网集团有限公司pipechina.com.cn

A state-owned, national-scale midstream energy infrastructure operator focused on interconnected pipeline networks, fair access to infrastructure, and oil and gas transportation and storage.

• Oil and gas trunk-pipeline transportation

  Transportation infrastructure for natural gas, crude oil and refined products.

• Pipeline network operation and dispatch

  Coordination of national oil and gas network operations and interconnection of trunk and third-party pipelines.

• Gas storage and LNG receiving infrastructure

  Underground gas storage and LNG receiving-terminal infrastructure, with related capacity disclosed for access.

• 2023

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2. 2国家石油天然气管网集团有限公司官网首页pipechina.com.cn
3. 3国家石油天然气管网集团zh.wikipedia.org
4. 4PipeChina - Wikidatawikidata.org
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