On May 17, China’s Ministry of Environment Protection said in a
statement that it gave permission to China National Petroleum
Corporation (CNPC) to build a 737-kilometre gas pipeline for Russian gas
supplies along the Eastern route, Sputnik reported. The ministry will
be constructed from Heihe in the northeastern Heilongjiang province to
Changling in the northeastern Jilin province.
The ministry said it agrees with the proposals on the environment
protection measures, describing the nature of the construction, the
scale and direction, which are enlisted in the report on the
construction’s environmental impact.
In May 2014 Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and CNPC signed a contract
for the gas sales on the Eastern route. The contract envisages supplies
of Russian gas to China in the amount of 38 billion cubic metres per
year for the period of 30 years. The Eastern route is meant for supplies
of gas to China through Yakutsk and Irkutsk gas production centers on
the main gas pipeline Power of Siberia.
Meanwhile, CNPC said on May 12 that it would start laying the China
section of a second crude oil pipeline to Russia in June, reuters
reported. The pipeline section, running through the northernmost
province Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at a length
941.8 kilometres is expected to be completed by October 2017, the
company’s newspaper said.
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/china-russia-plan-gas-oil-pipelines/