China's natural gas imports in May more than doubled from a year earlier to meet robust demand for the cleaner-burning fuel, the National Development and Reform Commission said Monday, citing industry data.
China
's
natural gas imports in May more than doubled from a year earlier to meet robust
demand for the cleaner-burning fuel, the National Development and Reform
Commission said Monday, citing industry data.
Natural gas imports reached 2.6 billion cubic meters last month, with pipeline
gas imports and liquefied natural gas imports each accounting for half of the
total, the NDRC said on its website.
Imports in the first five months, at 11.4 billion cubic meters, met one quarter
of local consumption, it said.
Domestic natural gas apparent consumption hit 10 billion cubic meters in May,
up 24.5% from a year earlier and up 4.6% from the previous month, while gas
output reached 8 billion cubic meters, up 5.7% on year and 2.6% on month, NDRC
said.
Gas demand for power generation remained at a high level due to continuing
power shortages. China National Offshore Oil Corp. raised spot LNG purchases in
May and increased daily supplies to power plants by more than 50% from
February, NDRC said.
The Central Asia Gas Pipeline linking
Turkmenistan
and
northwestern
China
transmitted more than 5.7 billion cubic meters of gas to
China
in
the first five months, and its capacity will be increased to 30 billion cubic
meters a year by June 2012 from 17.7 billion cubic meters a year now, the
pipeline operator China National Petroleum Corp. said Monday.
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