“The Chengdu Call for Action”
The 13th International Conference on Northeast Asian Natural Gas and Pipeline
3-4 September 2013
Chengdu, China
 From 3-4 September 2013, Northeast Asian Gas and Pipeline Forum(NAGPF) held the 13th International Conference on Northeast Asian
Natural Gas and Pipeline in Chengdu, China. The representatives
from organizations of member countries including China, Japan,Korea, Russia and Mongolia, as well as the oil companies and energy
research institutions at home and abroad attended the conference.
Participants made in-depth discussions about the theme of“Mechanism for Multilateral and Win-win Cooperation in Northeast
Asian Gas and Pipeline” and reach a broad consensus.
 Currently, the world energy mix and global natural gas market areexperiencing a new round of changing, showing a new trend thatnatural gas is hopeful to become the second largest energy in excessof coal, along with its continuously rising position in the global
energy structure. The center of global natural gas consumption ismoving eastward. The production center of world natural gas is
gradually transferring westwards, and the trade pattern has beenchanged. North America is expected to become an important area of
natural gas export.
 Asia is energetic in economic development. Its demands for energy
continue to increase, and the transition to the pattern of low-carbon
energy consumption is urgent and arduous. As a realistic way of1

achieving the transition to the low carbon energy consumption,
natural gas is facing historic opportunities and also challenges such as
the prominent contradiction between supply and demand, high importdependence, weak infrastructure, low efficiency of utilizing structure,and big premium pressures caused by the pricing mechanism, etc.
Building a new pattern of natural gas developing and utilizing in Asia
has become a universal challenge worthy of global concern andresponse.
 Five member countries including China, Japan, Korea, Russia andMongolia, are different in levels of social and economic development,
resource endowment and energy mix, but have obvious regional
advantages of promoting the exchanges and cooperation in regionalgas, as well as the extensive homogeneity and complementarity. As
expected, all member countries should adapt to the world energy
structure and the evolution and development trend of natural gas
market, innovative the ideas and ways of exchange and cooperation,
improve the levels of cooperation and exchange, jointly meetchallenges, and jointly build a new pattern for the sustained and stabledevelopment of natural gas in Northeast Asia and Asia.
 NAGPF 2013 Conference in Chengdu Initiatives:
1. Advocate the win-win concept. Push forward to establish aninter-governmental (among five member countries) mechanism forexchange cooperation and coordination in natural gas, improve thepolicies and systems, and strengthen the support of exchanges andcooperation.
2. Push forward the major cooperation projects. Play regional
advantages, plan and build the interconnected national gas pipeline
network, cooperate in the exploration and development of natural gas
2and the construction of LNG facilities, and gradually nurture andform the energy link of Northeast Asia.
3. Expand fields of exchange and cooperation. Jointly analyze
and evaluate the trends of natural gas markets in Asia and the world,and carry out the multi-level sharing and exchanges in talents,
technologies and management experience about the natural gas.
4. Cooperate in study and innovation of Asian natural gas pricing
mechanism, accelerate the establishment of platforms for natural gas
spot trading and futures trading, strive for and safeguard own interests,
and improve the statuses and influences in international trade.

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