The U.S.-China (Beijing) Gas Industry Workshop

The U.S.-China (Beijing) Gas Industry Cooperation Workshop was successfully held in Beijing on June 9th and 10th,2020. This workshop was jointly hosted by the National Energy Administration (NEA), P.R.C., the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), and the U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Program (ECP), and supported by Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the U.S. Embassy in China.

Considering the serious COVID-19 pandemic around the world, this session adopted a synchronous interaction system for both online and offline audience, sharing information with online guests and audience through live broadcasting so as to achieve seamless communication between offline (on-site) participants, online speakers, and online audience.

According to the statistics by the end of the workshop by the live broadcasting system, about 40 guests participated on site each day,and accumulative total of online audience reached more than 1,100 during the two-day workshop in Beijing.

This session in Beijing is the eighth gas workshop of the U.S.-China Gas Industry Cooperation Workshop Series following Beijing, Ordos, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Dalian, Hangzhou, and Qingdao. At the workshop, NEA representatives made specific policy interpretations on the recently published Interim Measures of Oil and Gas Project Filing and Supervision.  More than ten wonderful presentations were made by experts from Petro China, Sinopec, CNOOC, Cheniere Energy, Baker Hughes, Beijing Gas Group, Beijing Energy Group, Intel, Emerson, Hunton Andrews Kurth, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, etc.

Through the two panels­, U.S.-China Gas Industry Cooperation New Challenges and Opportunities under COVID-19 Epidemic and Innovation in Gas Industry Cooperation, the panelists shared the current status of the gas industrydevelopment from different angles, reviewed some hot industry topics and work on U.S.-China gas industry cooperation in the past two years, and discussed the prospects and possible directions of innovation cooperation in the oil and gas field in the next two to three years.

Being able to be held under serious global pandemic period, this workshopworked as a bridge to connect the industry experts, leading to positive results. Thanks to the contribution of ECP and partners, after two years of work, the ECP Gas Workshop Series has completed the first stage of understanding and recognizing the oil and gas industry. This laid a solid foundation and reaches consensus on the further cooperation in the entire gas industry value chain. ECP hopes to continue working with more outstanding partners hand in hand to contribute to the U.S.-China cooperation in the oil and gas industry.