2020年6月9日和10日，由国家能源局（NEA）、美国贸易发展署（USTDA）和中美能源合作项目（ECP）联合主办，北京市发改委和美国驻华大使馆共同支持的“中美（北京）天然气行业合作研讨会”在北京成功举办。
考虑全球疫情仍然比较严重，本次研讨会采用了全新的线上线下同步互动研讨，并通过直播形式将研讨会同步分享给在线嘉宾与观众，从而实现了会场嘉宾、线上嘉宾和收看直播的线上观众无缝联动的效果。
截止研讨会结束时的直播系统统计，现场参会嘉宾及观众每天40余人，直播在线参会嘉宾及观众两天累计1100多人次。
此次北京研讨会是继北京、鄂尔多斯、广州、苏州、大连、杭州、青岛之后的第八场中美能源合作天然气行业系列研讨会。研讨会上，国家能源局的代表就近期公布的《油气开发项目备案及监管暂行办法》做了具体的政策解读。来自中石油、中石化、中海油、切尼尔能源、贝克休斯、北京燃气、北京能源集团、英特尔、艾默生、何威安卓律师事务所、国际勘探地球物理学家学会的专家就当前形势下最新的天然气行业发展和技术创新情况做了十多个精彩的专题报告。
研讨会还设置了“新冠疫情下的中美天然气行业合作的新挑战和机遇”和“天然气行业全产链创新合作”两个主题对话环节，对话嘉宾从不同角度分享了当下天然气行业发展状况，回顾了近两年中美天然气行业合作的一些热点领域和工作成果，并探讨展望了未来两到三年间油气领域创新合作的可能方向和重点。
本次研讨会能在全球疫情严重的情况下召开举办，起到了行业间沟通的桥梁作用，收到了良好的反响和效果。在中美能源合作项目（ECP）和各方合作伙伴的努力下，历经两年，中美能源合作天然气系列研讨会完成了第一阶段的摸底和认知工作，为后面的行业间深度和全产链商务合作打下了坚实的合作基础和共识。中美能源合作项目（ECP）希望能与更多优秀合作伙伴携手并肩、再接再厉，发挥各自优势，为中美油气行业做出新的贡献和成绩。
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 industry development 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 workshop worked as a bridge toconnect 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 outstandingpartners hand in hand to contribute to the U.S.-China cooperation in the oil and gas industry.
