Thursday, June 11, 2009

Gas: Construction starts on first transnational gas pipeline

The People's Daily reports the Central-Asian Natural Gas Pipeline (Horgos) Company was established in Horgos Port at the border of China and Kazakhstan on June 9, indicating that construction of the Chinese section of China's first transnational gas transmission pipeline officially started.

The company is the wholly-owned subsidiary set up by the Central Asian (Kazakhstan) Natural Gas Pipeline Company in China, with a registered capital of 50 million USD. It is responsible for the design, construction, operation and natural gas transmission of the Chinese section of the Central Asian natural gas pipeline.

The Central Asian natural gas pipeline stretches from the border of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the west, passes through central Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, and enters China at Horgos Port in Xinjiang.

The pipeline is about 1,801 kilometers in total length, including a 1,300-kilometer-long section across Kazakhstan. A 4.4-kilometer-long double-line duct and a commercial metering station will be built in China
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