China's Great Leap Forward shale gas

March 2012, the National Development and Reform Commission and other four departments jointly issued the " shale gas " second five "development plan" put forward: 2015 Chinese shale gas output reached 6.5 billion cubic meters by 2020 and strive to reach 60 billion annual to 100 billion cubic meters.
Ministry of Land and Oil and Gas Resources Strategic Research Center deputy director Zhang Dawei: At present, China shale gas exploration and development is still in its infancy, we consider the "second five" is mainly to prepare, we plan (annual) production is 65-8000000000 party " Thirteen Five "is a big stage of development, then you can strive to achieve 100 billion square (every year), accounting for a quarter of our total gas production.
In June 2011, the Ministry for the state-owned public tender to sell shale gas exploration.ceramic proppant Winning several major domestic oil companies have begun to conduct exploration and production activities.
According to Chinese data on several major domestic oil companies, as of the end of April 2012, China drilled a total of 63 shale gas (oil) wells, which BP 61, MLR test wells 2, and has 30 pages rock wells in industrial airflow.
Relatively rapid progress in the oil, in southern Sichuan, Yunnan and northern regions is preferably a four favorable block, of which four vertical wells in industrial airflow. While Sinopec shale gas exploration for the first time after winning the tender, now in eastern Guizhou, Anhui, Sichuan and northeastern drilled five appraisal wells, of which two in industrial airflow.
October 25, 2012, to open the second round of private enterprises to open tender for shale gas in Beijing opened the tender is ever sell our mineral rights, the minimum threshold, the most open again. According to the announcement file: as long as the Chinese-funded enterprises registered in the territory, or Chinese-controlled joint venture with a registered capital of not less than 300 million yuan, you can participate in the tender.
Xiamen University, Lin Boqiang: U.S. shale gas is a private small to do it, then China Without this force, then it may be relatively slow, PetroChina, Sinopec I understand now though that they shale gas is still very great importance, but My heart is not there, so rapid shale gas development on a large scale, it may also need private, require massive influx of foreign private needs.
Shale gas development prospects, accelerate the development of shale gas has become the consensus, but the current situation of large-scale commercial production from a certain distance, which is a key factor in our country has not yet established the core of shale gas exploration and development technologies. The use of  shale gas  development and  Hydraulic fracturing  technology requires a lot of water, which for water-starved China is a huge challenge.