Research On The Impact Of Natural Gas Industry Chain Structure Reform On Investment Of A Provincial Pipeline Network Company

With the rapid growth of China’s natural gas industry,deep-seated conflicts and problems in the natural gas Production-Supply-Storage-Marketing system are coming to the fore.To this end,China has launched a series of reform initiatives to reshape the structure of the natural gas industry chain and promote the marketization of natural gas.The ongoing reform of the natural gas industry chain structure has also had an impact on China’s provincial pipeline network companies.Currently,scholars mostly focus on the reform’s prediction of the development trend of provincial pipeline network companies’ resource market,operation revenue,pipeline distribution mechanism and pipeline network operation supervision,and lack research on the impact of the reform on investment.This paper uses literature analysis to identify the factors affecting investment in a provincial pipeline company at the macro,meso,and micro levels,analyzes the effect of reform on these factors one by one,and constructs an AHP-fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model as an evaluation index to study the impact of reform on the investment of this company.Industry-related policies,profitability status,and the degree of competition in the city gas industry have a large impact on investment.The Company’s future investments should respond positively to national policies,follow the trend of industrial development,focus on improving the transmission and distribution capacity of existing pipeline networks,and fully carry out the integration of city gas in order to enhance profitability.