Abstract:Taking Sichuan, a clean energy demonstration province, as an example, this article establishes the carbon emission list of natural gas industry and judges the key emission sources from the perspective of the whole industry chain of upstream development, midstream storage and transportation and downstream utilization. Based on the advantages of dynamic simulation of system dynamics model, the heterogeneous emission trajectory and the emission reduction effect of energy substitution of natural gas industry from 2021 to 2030 are scientifically analyzed. At the same time, the possibility of replacing coal and oil with natural gas is discussed in key areas such as power generation, industry, transportation and resident life. The results show that fuel combustion plays an absolute dominant role in the carbon emission composition of natural gas industry in Sichuan Province. Among them, the terminal consumption units, represented by industry and resident life, contribute significantly to carbon emission under the combined influence of scale effect and demand orientation, while the CO2 emission of system overflow mainly comes from the by-products of natural gas production, collection and processing units. Under the baseline scenario, loose low-carbon policy scenario, and strict low-carbon policy scenario, the carbon emissions of natural gas industry have all shown an upward trend year by year from 2021 to 2030, which is mainly due to the chain and cluster development of natural gas industry under the new low-carbon development pattern. As an important natural gas production base in China, the advantages such as resource endowment, advanced technology, good market and preferential policies in Sichuan province have created favorable conditions for natural gas to replace coal and oil in fields such as power generation, industry, transportation and resident life.