days ago, CNOOC Mengxi coal-to-natural gas export pipeline project Tianjin LNG contact line routing plan has been approved by the Tianjin municipal government. So far, the whole route scheme of Mengxi pipeline has been approved by the governments of Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei and Tianjin provinces, cities and autonomous regions along the line.

CNOOC Mengxi Coal-to-Natural Gas Export Pipeline Project has a total length of 1279 kilometers, starting from the first station in Hangjin Banner, Inner Mongolia, passing through Shanxi, Hebei and Tianjin, and ending in Huanghua City, Cangzhou. The project is mainly composed of line engineering and process station and its auxiliary supporting works. The line works include 1 trunk line, 2 injection branch lines, 1 distribution line and 1 tie line.

Tianjin LNG contact line will expand the market of Tianjin LNG, which has been completed and put into operation, to Hebei and Beijing through the Mengxi pipeline, and form an emergency mutual insurance situation with coal-to-natural gas, further enhancing CNOOC's ability to ensure safe supply to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei natural gas market.

CNOOC Mengxi Coal-to-Natural Gas Export Pipeline Project is mainly composed of line engineering, process station yard and its auxiliary supporting works. The

line project includes 1 trunk line, 2 injection branch lines, 1 distribution branch line and 1 tie line. The gas transmission volume of the first phase of the project is 200 × 108 Nm3/a, and the second phase is 300 × 108 Nm3/a depending on the upstream gas source production.

The trunk line starts from the first station of Hangjin Banner in Hangjin Banner, Inner Mongolia, and ends at Huanghua Terminal Station in Huanghua City, Hebei Province through 4 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government in Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei and Tianjin, with a total length of about 1020km. The injection branch line includes the main road injection branch line and the Zuoyun injection branch line. The branch line is Langfang branch line.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation plans to develop coal-based clean energy during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" project development and construction. The coal-based clean energy "North Line Plan" project consists of Shanxi Datong low-metamorphic bituminous coal clean utilization demonstration project, CNOOC Ordos 4 billion standard square/year coal-to-natural gas project and CNOOC Mengxi coal-to-natural gas export pipeline project. CNOOC takes coal to natural gas (SNG) as the main direction of the company's development of coal-based clean energy, builds a new energy industry system, and looks forward to achieving a second leap.

According to sources from the Chemical Network, on March 4 this year, the environmental impact assessment of the demonstration project for clean utilization of low metamorphic bituminous coal in Datong, Shanxi Province was approved. On August 7, 2015, the State Ministry of Environmental Protection officially accepted the environmental impact assessment document of CNOOC Ordos 4 billion standard party/year coal-to-natural gas project.

March and April, the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection has successively issued the "Reply on the Environmental Impact Report of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation Shanxi Datong Low Metamorphic Bituminous Coal Clean Utilization Demonstration Project", "The Reply on the Environmental Impact Report of Suxin Energy and Feng Co., Ltd. 4 billion Standard Cubic Meters/Year Coal-to-Natural Gas Project" and the Reply on the Environmental Impact Report of Inner Mongolia Beikong Jingtai Energy Development Co., Ltd. 4 billion Cubic Meters/Year Coal-to Natural Gas Project. The three major projects total coal-based natural gas (SNG) production capacity of 12 billion square/year.

Coal-to-liquid and coal-to-natural gas are considered important means to ensure China's energy security, and are welcomed by local governments for their huge investment volume and output value. Although the continued downturn in international oil prices has questioned the economics of coal-to-gas, low steel prices at this stage have greatly reduced project investment, coal overcapacity has provided low-cost raw material supply, and low interest rates have reduced financing costs. Improve the profitability of new coal-to-liquid and coal-to-gas projects.