China Petroleum And Natural Gas Group Signed Contracts With Russia

Yesterday,

The above agreements include the pportation capacity of two natural gas pipelines (63 billion cubic meters per year), supply and supply period.

In addition, as part of trade and cooperation, Russian natural gas company may work with PetroChina to build a natural gas chemical plant.

People in the natural gas market room of CNPC said that since the two sides signed the first agreement on natural gas cooperation in 2004, after 6 years of negotiations, the key parameters and key parameters for China's natural gas export have been determined.

However, the agreement is not the final commercial contract because the two sides have not yet reached agreement on the price of natural gas.

"The main reason is that the Russian side is going to have a high price, while the Chinese offer is low, and the two sides have been unable to reach a compromise."

Those people said.

The Russian side said that the price fixing will be included in the next agreement, and it is scheduled to be signed by mid 2011. It is hoped that the formal commercial contract will be finalized in July 2011. If it is signed as scheduled, it will deliver the first batch of natural gas to CNPC in 2015.

It is reported that China is ready to negotiate with the price of $150 per thousand cubic meters under the conditions of funding the construction of natural gas pipelines.

However, Russian studies believe that the cost of supplying natural gas from Russia to China is $180 per thousand cubic meters, so the Russian side insists that the price of natural gas to China should not be less than US $220.

"At such a high price, the Chinese side can't accept it. How can we sell it after we import it?" said the above.

It is understood that PetroChina is currently importing natural gas from Australia at around $145.