This can not help but let the author feel deeply. It should be said that gas companies should be ranked in the position of 'God' between gas producers and gas users. But in this relationship, it is obvious that 'God' is in a position of being subjected to anger. The increase in the ex-factory price of natural gas, the direct result is that the production costs of those manufacturers of gas prefix fertilizers will increase by a big chunk. Take gas system urea business. The maximum price increase rate for fertilizer production gas is 100 yuan per 1,000 cubic meters, and the production gas consumption per ton of urea is 800 to 900 cubic meters. The cost of gas urea production will increase by 80 to 90 yuan per ton. An annual increase of 300,000 tons of urea production companies will increase the cost of more than 200 million. This is a big sum for any fertilizer production company. However, when the reporter interviewed these gas prefix fertiliser companies, they disclosed that this situation they had known for a long time. How much it costs a company to increase each year is also very clear to the mind, but they are reluctant to talk about this because they are not. Dare to offend the gas supplier. In case anyone is unhappy, they will be cut off and their losses will be even greater.
In fact, it is not unreasonable to worry about these gas-head fertilizer companies. Isn't it because the lack of gas has caused less cases of stopping or reducing production of fertilizer companies? At the beginning of this year, due to air failure, Dahua suffered a discontinued production for more than two months, causing losses to the company of more than 40 million yuan; Henan Zhongyuan Dahua Group Co., Ltd., Shaanxi Xinghua Group Co., Ltd., etc. Also because of lack of gas or production or production cuts. Although there are many reasons for the lack of gas in these enterprises, the monopoly of natural gas supply is the main reason. This is also the pain in the heart of downstream gas-head fertilizer companies.
It is understood that the goal of this reform is to rationalize the price relationship with alternative energy sources and establish a mechanism for linking and dynamically adjusting the prices of alternative energy sources. This motivation is absolutely right. However, from the attitude of gas-head fertilizer companies to natural gas suppliers, it is impossible to truly establish a mechanism to link and dynamically adjust the prices of alternative energy under the monopoly system. If one day, the gas companies dare to bargain with the gas supply companies, the price of natural gas at that time will certainly be much more than it is now, because at that time the monopoly of the natural gas industry must have been broken, 'God' dared to openly express their needs. The status of everyone will be equal.
From December 26th, the National Development and Reform Commission adjusted the ex-factory prices of natural gas nationwide, and the ex-factory prices of natural gas for industrial and urban gas use in all oil and gas fields increased by 50 to 150 yuan per 1,000 cubic meters, and the ex-factory price of natural gas for fertilizer production was every thousand cubic meters. Rice is increased by 50 to 100 yuan. The introduction of this policy has undoubtedly increased the production costs of fertilizer companies using natural gas as raw materials. However, what surprised the author was that most of these companies had chosen silence for such a major change. Under repeated scrutiny by the author, they only revealed the reasons: fear of offending gas suppliers.