Commentary Private enterprises should not be shut out of oil reserves

 Monitoring shows that the international market oil price shock in 2010 upward, the average price rose 28% in 2009. High international oil prices and the recent problems in the domestic

most important now is that the Government should be excluded from the interference of interest groups, bold decision-making, private enterprises start as soon as possible oil reserve plan, which not only the joint act of God, under the joint opinion, to better protect our strategic resources Long-term stability.

According to the National Development and Reform Commission
the implementation of the national oil reserves in the past, planning has to play a leading role of state-owned enterprises, while private enterprises are rare, the proportion is very limited. Despite last year's grand launch the new 36, to the private oil enterprises to enter the national strategic reserve of crude oil has brought the gospel, but feel wary because of the private enterprises, in fact, oil reserves, or to shut out private enterprises.

from China's private oil enterprises in terms of its own power, but also with the Statistics show that as of now, China's private petroleum enterprises, 8 million homes, with 100 million people, nearly 40,000 gas stations, 30 million tons storage capacity, 25 million tons terminal throughput, the total annual sales of nearly 1 million tons of oil About 1 trillion in assets. Private enterprises to participate in the feasibility of oil reserves, at least three aspects need to be addressed be possible to achieve. First, the Government must introduce a series of policies to support. In China, private oil companies have storage capacity of 10 million tons of oil tanks at least 10, but the absence of oil sources, these have a considerable size of the depot is now basically idle. State-owned enterprises and private enterprises can be taken to separate the management of oil reserves, or as the main state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, respectively, to cooperate with several other means. Second, the Finally, we should learn from foreign experience. History tells us which state controlled the industry strong, which trades on the shortage, even dangerous; which trades open, not a shortage, it will not appear dangerous signal. Experience of foreign oil reserves, we may bring reference.

Construction of Chinese oil reserve system, we must consider the commercial operation of the private oil enterprises as a key member of oil reserves, the energy can not be underestimated. Experience from the development of the world, In the U.S., in addition to 5 major oil companies, there are 4,000 small companies are involved in the oil industry.