Three-Dimensional Enhancement Measures for China's Natural Gas Pipeline Networks Driven by the "Dual Carbon" Goal

Under the guidance of "dual-carbon" goal, China's energy industry is accelerating its transformation, and natural gas, as a clean transitional energy, plays a key role in the energy consumption structure. Natural gas pipeline network, as the core infrastructure for natural gas transmission, has a direct bearing on the low-carbon transformation of the whole energy system in terms of its operational efficiency and the scale of clean energy transmission. Therefore, optimising the pipeline network is crucial to achieving the "double carbon" goal. Based on the background of "dual-carbon", this study reviews the development history of China's natural gas pipeline network, analyses the current situation and existing problems of natural gas pipeline network in the process of development, and further proposes specific enhancement measures for the high-quality development of natural gas pipeline network. The study concludes that although China's natural gas pipeline network has formed a "national network" pattern, there are still a lot of problems in the process of development, such as unbalanced regional layout, obstacles to the transformation of digital intelligence, and imperfections in the market mechanism and regulatory system, and other challenges are still prominent. In view of these challenges, this paper proposes to optimise the spatial layout, increase the promotion of pipeline network digital intelligence and improve the relevant regulatory system and other specific three-dimensional enhancement measures, in order to promote China's natural gas pipeline network to a more efficient, intelligent and green direction, and to provide a solid support for the "dual-carbon" goal.