China's second West-East natural gas pipeline comes online Thursday, bringing gas imports from Central Asia to 15 provinces and autonomous regions, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported.
The CNY142.2 billion ($21.97 billion) pipeline, which links the northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region to Shanghai in the east and Guangzhou and Hong Kong in the south, has an annual transmission capacity of 30 billion cubic meters and will be able to operate for more than 30 years, Xinhua said
China's second West-East natural gas pipeline comes
online Thursday, bringing gas imports from Central Asia to 15 provinces and
autonomous regions, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported.
The CNY142.2 billion ($21.97 billion) pipeline, which links the northwestern
Xinjiang Autonomous Region to Shanghai in the
east and Guangzhou and Hong
Kong in the south, has an annual transmission capacity of 30
billion cubic meters and will be able to operate for more than 30 years, Xinhua
said.
Operation of the 8,704-kilometer pipeline will help ease tight gas supplies in
the country as it pushes to increase use of the cleaner-burning fuel, it 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 of
the year. Its capacity will be increased to 30 billion cubic meters a year by
June 2012 from 17.7 billion cubic meters a year now.
China's first domestic
west-to-east pipeline has been in operation since October 2004, piping gas from
the Tarim Basin
in Xinjiang to Shanghai.
It is designed to transmit 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
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