In order to improve the efficiency of the allocation of oil and gas resources and ensure the safe and stable supply of oil and gas energy, as it enters the first anniversary of actual operation, the National Petroleum and Natural Gas Pipeline Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the National Pipeline Network Group) opened a large Adjustment.

On September 1, a reporter from the Economic Observer Network learned about the specific arrangements for the optimization of the headquarters of the National Pipe Network Group. "The adjustment of the headquarters and the transfer of personnel must be basically completed in about a week. The work will be completed within two months." The above news and related arrangements were announced at the headquarters staff meeting held by the National Pipeline Network Group on August 26.

After the headquarters organization was optimized, the original model of eight departments plus four headquarters was changed to the "twelve departments" model. The problem of overlapping management of directly affiliated enterprises in the same area will also be resolved in this adjustment. It is understood that in order to reduce management costs, improve management efficiency, further establish market management concepts, and promote the implementation of marketization strategies, the National Pipe Network Group will establish Shandong Operation and Maintenance Center, Guangdong Operation and Maintenance Center, and provide relevant services to branches in North China and East China. Business adjustments.

An oil and gas industry observer told the Economic Observer: "From the establishment of the national pipeline network preparation team in July 2019 to the present, we have indeed seen the adjustment of the national pipeline network in progress, using'development strategy to drive process optimization'. The concept runs through the entire process of pipeline network formation and adjustment, and now the pipeline network is reshaping its structure and mechanism through processes."

On August 27, the official WeChat platform of the State Pipe Network Group released an article. Zhang Wei, chairman and party secretary of the State Pipe Network Group, said, “The optimization and adjustment of the headquarters organization focuses on solving the main contradictions and the main aspects of the current headquarters. The problem, as the situation changes and practice deepens, optimization and adjustment will be carried out dynamically."

It is reported that the competition for relevant positions is in progress. After everything is straightened out and "people leave on duty", the ultimate goal of the national pipeline network is to "build a world-class energy infrastructure operator with Chinese characteristics."

Separation of operation and regulation

From the perspective of the organizational structure at the time of the pipeline network construction, the production and operation headquarters previously lacked a channel for external communication and internal constraints, resulting in poor communication between users, shippers, and pipeline network information.

The suggestion of industry experts at that time was that “a management organization should be reorganized and established, which performs internal supervision functions and external communication functions to ensure the rational allocation of pipeline network operation resources. The production and operation business needs to be separated from the business of the control center to form The former’s effective assessment of the latter, the formulation of rules and the specific implementation of the "separation of the two powers", if they are not separated, the referee and the athletes will be the same."

In October 2020, the first batch of shippers system in the national pipeline network was launched, and 54 companies obtained the qualifications of the national pipeline network shippers. After two rounds of reporting and screening, as of April this year, a total of 1,797 companies had registered, 997 companies had valid information, and a total of 690 companies had obtained the qualifications of shippers after reviewing access.

The problem is that the low barriers to entry and the opaque screening rules have caused a large number of unqualified companies to be included in the shipper, affecting the distribution of the already relatively limited management space. Furthermore, the flooding of unqualified shippers will also cause distortion of real gas demand (amplify demand) and affect prices.

Judging from the previous operation of the pipeline network, the pipeline load rate does not rise but declines after the physical interconnection is realized, and there is an urgent need to reduce the reduced pipeline transmission cost. The original intention of the establishment, therefore, the institutional mechanism needs to be further improved in order to clarify the inefficiency and chaos at this stage.

The above situation is about to be improved. According to the details of the optimization of the current headquarters organization, one of the changes is that the original production and operation part is listed as the marketing department and the control center. The former is an agency department and the latter is a directly affiliated unit. While strengthening the market operation function, it can also realize the separation of production operation and regulation business, which provides an organizational guarantee for the formation of the former's restraint mechanism on the latter.

Industry experts previously told reporters that “the responsibility of the national pipeline network extension agency should be to conduct professional and technical assessments of internal institutions such as the control center and various pipeline companies.” The assessment directions include: operating costs of relevant units, promoting cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, and forming internal supervision of costs and prices; legal compliance, supervision of "fair and open" and the implementation of public welfare policies; operational safety, monitoring whether the prepared operating plan can Ensure national energy security, supervise whether the implementation of dispatching at all levels complies with regulations; supervise internal measurement and trade measurement; be responsible for establishing KPIs, carrying out international benchmarking, etc., and establishing credible and quantifiable internal assessment and evaluation systems.

It is reported that the functions of the Marketing Department include: the formulation of internal operating standards and regulations, the formulation of external pipeline and storage and transportation facilities service transactions, the formulation of air volume balance trading rules, and the formulation and implementation of a fair and open and trading service platform maintenance system.

According to a reporter from the Economic Observer, a new measure is also being implemented. The national pipeline network will extend the agreement period with shippers to 5-20 years and set liquidated damages. "This can effectively squeeze out some unavailable The occupation of management capacity by qualified enterprises."

Accelerating digital transformation

The second change of this adjustment is to list the original technology digital part as the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Digitalization. It aims to strengthen the overall management of science and technology, adapt to the trend of technological innovation, and strengthen the integration of scientific research and business. Accelerate the advancement of digital transformation and highlight digital transformation work.

Digitization plays an important role in the operation of the pipe network and is the key to optimizing resource allocation. Liu Bing, a veteran in the oil and gas industry and a pipeline energy efficiency expert, once told the Economic Observer that after the integration of the pipeline network, changes in management methods and performance indicators, new demands will promote the continuous improvement of automation and informatization. To improve the efficiency of the pipeline network, to focus on the optimization of the transportation process and the key performance indicators, it is inseparable from the automation and information methods.

Regarding "key performance indicators reflecting the efficiency of pipeline network resource allocation", Liu Bing put forward the concept of indicator design and operation management "two measurement and one evaluation" in the book "Energy Efficiency Management of Oil and Gas Pipelines", namely: online monitoring, forecasting and efficiency evaluation. He believes that the resource allocation efficiency index is both a "barometer" and a "thermometer", which can show the operation of the national pipeline network. Among them, he took the lead in proposing market management through digital technology to achieve fairness and openness, and an evaluation index system that matches modern methods such as digitalization and automation.

One nationwide network to optimize resource allocation is also one of the links in the national pipeline network's "two majors and one new", that is, "building a smart interconnected large pipeline network, building a fair and open platform, and cultivating a new ecosystem of innovation and growth."

The headquarters of the National Pipe Network Group has optimized and adjusted the organization and established a "digital enablement business" position in the marketing department. It is reported that this position involves business workflow management, business activity standards and specification formulation, and is responsible for the use of pipeline transmission simulation software to carry out pipeline transmission route optimization and pipeline transmission fee comparison, and provide support for optimizing resource allocation.

Through the independent marketing department, it has strengthened its "responsible for researching and proposing a differentiated price strategy for pipeline transmission that maximizes benefits; responsible for various business workflows within the group; responsible for digital enablement, route optimization, and pipeline transmission fee comparison." And other three functions.

Transaction Service Big Data

With the rationalization of the functions of various departments and the establishment of digital platforms, the collection of real data will help to form "pipeline oil and gas big data", which will also benefit the future acquisition of pricing power in the international oil and gas trading market.

This time, the National Pipeline Network established a position in the Marketing Department to manage the big data platform for fairness, openness and transaction services.

The above-mentioned oil and gas industry experts said that through a fair and open large platform, one can achieve "using the invisible hands of the market economy" to efficiently realize the optimal allocation of resources, make full use of pipeline capacity and routing, and "make the pipeline network busy and lower the pipeline transmission price. , Oil and gas prices will drop”; second, by granting relevant public welfare rules to the platform, the safety and stability of oil and gas supply, better protection of people’s livelihood, and social responsibility; third, using big data to support spot trading of oil and gas futures to obtain pricing power, And then fundamentally guarantee the national energy security.

He believes that objective optimization models and advanced pipeline transmission simulation software are used to carry out route optimization and pipeline transmission fee comparison work. It shows that the national pipeline network has established the policy of supporting "fair and open" with technical objectivity and information transparency.

"Relying on big data and simulation software to build a fair and open large platform. For the National Pipe Network Group, it is conducive to the development of actual operations, is conducive to avoiding legal risks, and preventing the generation of rent-seeking space. For the supervisory level, it is conducive to reducing supervision Cost. For shippers, it is conducive to improving the efficiency of business negotiations, standardizing competition, and reducing business costs. The most important role is the reduction of energy prices." The above-mentioned expert said.

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This adjustment has greatly reduced the organizational structure of non-business departments. The original Human Resources Department merged with the original Party and Mass Propaganda Department to form an Organization and Party and Mass Department. The original legal compliance department and the original audit department were merged to form a comprehensive supervision department. In addition, the Financial Assets Department was renamed the Finance Department. Editor/Sang Xiaomei