2005 Annual Report on Chinese LPG Industry
[Key Words] Annual Report LPG Industry

Report Introduction

In 2005, precipitate China’s petrochemical industry trade through the reason formed in development for many years under the vigorous market superficial phenomenon. Face unprecedented opportunity and challenge especially as the petrochemical industry trade of the pillar industry in national economy, what course should the development of trade of petrochemical industry of our country follow to become the focus that the masses attract attention. With the high-speed development of the economy of our country, the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG ) of our country increased fast with consumption rate of increase of 18% every year in the past 10 years, its production, had sold and stored and transported and already formed an enormous industry, today, the international economy globalizes day by day, what course should LPG of our country follow?
This research consults the report according to the information that State Statistics Bureau , State General Administration of Customs , the State Economic and Trade Commission offer, and a large number of materials that domestic and international relevant papers and magazines offered, combine the field investigation of the relevant enterprises of petrochemical industry and R&D institution ,etc. of my department, supply , demand state , state of development , imports and exports situation , consumption demand to the trade LPG of petrochemical industry of our country ,etc. have been analysed , and has analysed especially the development trends of the petrochemical industry of the world and Chinese and LPG have carried on research, and to the suggestion how to face these changes to propose one’s own of enterprise. Report to the contents of such important plates as comprehensive petroleum , chemical industry , LPG , natural gas , other substituting fuel ,etc., and to the relevant strategy of national petrochemical industry, the trend is studied and judged , it is the petrochemical industry that produces and manages such units as the enterprise , R&D institution , investment company ,etc. and understands accurately LPG trade develops the trends at present, hold the making a reservation and fine works with rare developing direction of enterprise.

Report Contents

The first part profession characteristic and related industry analysis
Chapter one Characteristic analysis of LPG 1
Section one Composition of the liquefied petroleum gas 1
First, definition of LPG 1
Second, backbone of the liquefied petroleum gas 2
Section two Characteristic of the liquefied petroleum gas 4
First, physical property of LPG 4
Second, characteristic of LPG 5
Third, combustion efficiency of LPG 6
Section three Introduction and comparison of all kinds of gas 10
First, hydrogen 10
Second, natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas 11
Third, coal gas 19
Forth, marsh gas 22
Fifth, DME 22

Chapter two Analysis of relevant trade current situations of the development 25
Section one Energy industry 25
First, the production of Chinese energy and situation of increasing in January - May of 2005 25
Second, current situation analysis of petroleum industry 27
Third, supply and demand analysis of petroleum market 41
Forth, supply and demand analysis of natural gas market 56
Section two Industry of petrochemical 62
First, petrochemical industry development analysis in the world of 2005 62
Second, 2004 Chinese petrochemical industry analysis 74
Third, prediction of Chinese petrochemical industry growth trend of 2005 89

The second part domestic and international LPG develops the present condition
Chapter three Current situation analysis of the world LPG market 96
Section one The world LPG is supply exceeds demand, belong to the buyer’s market 96
First, total demand of the world LPG 96
Second, the world LPG supplies the state 102
Third, international market LPG foreign trade analysis 106
Fourth, importer LPG stores facilities and relies mainly on the fact that store the storehouse large-scaly 107
Section two Produces and supplies analyzing of the world LPG 108
First, LGP condition of production of 2005 in every world area 108
Section three Global LPG demand is analysed and predicted 112
First, market analysis of every area in the world 112
Second, LPG global application analysis 117
Section four The situation of produce and use of LPG in some countries 121
First, S.Korean LPG gas industrial development 123
Second, the Thai liquefied petroleum gas exports potentiality enormously 126

Chapter four Market current situation of LPG of our country 129
Section one Chinese LPG market increases rapidly, the import volume is enormous 129
First, Chinese LPG market’s population characteristic 129
Second, the growth of the output lags behind increase of demand, it is violent to import the momentum 130
Third, Chinese LPG has a bright future 131
Fourth, the market LPG of domestic gas of our country will coexist with the natural gas for a long time 132
Fifth, upward price trend of LPG 133
Sixth, our country needs to set up LPG to store 137
Section two LPG supply analysis 138
First, domestic LPG 139
Second, import LPG 151
Third, receive large-scale warehousing and transportation facilities which is imported LPG in conformity with development in our country 153
Section three LPG demand analysis 157
First, LPG is consumed and analysed 157
Second, Chinese LPG consumption structure analysis 158
Third, future requirement forecasting 159
Fourth, LPG market’s hot field 163
Section four Supply and demand analysis of Chinese LPG 163
First, 2004 supply and demand analysis 163
Second, LPG supply and demand is predicted in 2005 166
Section five Regional market analysis of LPG 168
Section six LPG market trend 171

Chapter five LPG imports and exports analysis 177
Section one Import 177
First, LPG is imported and relied on one of the energy products of one degree of a supreme ones in China 177
Second, import situation of our country 179
Third, Chinese LPG main import situation of import area 180
Fourth , LPG import enterprise’s rank 183
Fifth, it is fierce to import the competition, importer’s mate reduces 184
Sixth, the price of international LPG drops and pulls importing 185
Seventh, import and predict 188
Section two Export 189