1. Deep oil and gas exploration and development technology
In recent years, 60% of the world’s newly added oil and gas reserves have come from deep geological formations, and advancing into the depths of the Earth is an important direction for global energy technology innovation. In the future, it is urgent to strengthen the research on the enrichment mechanism and distribution law of ultra deep oil and gas, overcome the key technical, material, and equipment challenges for safe and efficient drilling and completion of ultra deep oil and gas, and seize the strategic high ground of global deep and ultra deep oil and gas exploration and development.
2. Deep sea oil and gas exploration and development technology
In recent years, deep-sea oil and gas discoveries have accounted for more than half of the world’s new oil and gas discoveries. Future key technological research directions include ultra deep water floating production, storage, and unloading oil devices, deep water floating liquefied natural gas devices, single point mooring systems, subsea factories, and deep-sea support bases. As China’s offshore energy development enters a new stage of multi energy collaborative development, the integration of deep-sea oil and gas with deep-sea offshore wind power will also become an important direction.
3. Exploration and development technology for terrestrial shale oil and gas
Continental shale oil and gas are expected to achieve economies of scale in development, becoming a major strategic replacement area for increasing oil and gas reserves and production in China. The future key technological directions include geological theory of terrestrial shale oil and gas, carbon dioxide and nano enhanced oil recovery technology, horizontal well super “one trip drilling” supporting technology, precise intelligent fracturing, three-dimensional development, green electricity+in-situ modification, etc. These technological breakthroughs will promote the Chinese shale revolution.
4. Production technology of high-end new materials based on petroleum
The production technology of petroleum based high-end new materials will focus more on meeting the quality and category of urgently needed products in emerging industry markets, and carry out research and development in chemical raw materials, catalysts and equipment, green manufacturing, and other aspects to make the entire life cycle of chemical new materials more green and low-carbon.
5. Sustainable utilization technology for large-scale wind solar hydrogen storage
The key research directions for large-scale sustainable utilization technology of wind solar hydrogen storage include high-efficiency electrolysis of water for hydrogen production, hydrogen storage materials, and hydrogen fuel cells. In the future, it is expected to achieve integrated operation of renewable hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and use throughout the entire chain. This has significant strategic significance for promoting the coordinated development of various energy sources such as wind power, photovoltaics, hydrogen energy, and energy storage, and improving the comprehensive utilization efficiency of clean energy.
6. CCUS technology
The key technologies of CCUS include low-cost and low-energy carbon capture such as chemical chain combustion, chemical utilization such as carbon dioxide to green methanol, biological and mineralization utilization of carbon dioxide, large-scale storage of deep saline aquifers, rapid mineralization and rate control of carbon dioxide, and efficient utilization of geological carbon storage capacity. It is expected that around 2030, CCUS core technology will make breakthrough progress and become the “trump card” for carbon reduction.
7. Resource recycling and reuse technology
Resource recycling and reuse technologies will become an important force supporting sustainable economic and social development. Chemical recycling technology is expected to break through the bottleneck of the development of waste plastic material recycling and completely solve the problem of plastic pollution. Building a comprehensive, efficient, standardized and orderly retired power battery recycling system is expected to support the green and high-quality development of the new energy vehicle industry.
8. Advanced biomanufacturing technology based on synthetic biology
Synthetic biology will accelerate the transformation of the biomanufacturing industry, and advanced biomanufacturing technologies based on synthetic biology are expected to reshape traditional industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and energy in the future. It is expected that synthetic biomanufacturing will form a market size of trillions of dollars annually in the next 10-20 years. Green biomanufacturing will become an important technological choice for energy and chemical enterprises under the constraint of the “dual carbon” target.
9. Energy Smart Production and Utilization Technology
Energy smart production and utilization technology is a future energy technology formed by the integration of “smart oil and gas production” and “AI intelligent decision-making new energy utilization system”. Through AI decision-making, energy Internet, multi energy complementation and other methods to solve the intelligent and green use of energy in the future.
10. Controllable nuclear fusion technology
Controllable nuclear fusion technology is a process aimed at achieving the aggregation of light atomic nuclei into heavy atomic nuclei at extremely high temperatures and pressures, and releasing enormous energy. It is currently in the experimental stage. It is expected that controllable nuclear fusion will be commercially applied around 2050, which is expected to promote the gradual elimination of human society’s dependence on fossil fuels and enter a new era of energy.
