The gas pipeline stretches 1,800 km from Turkmenistan to the Kazakh border and continues a further 4,500 km into China’s far western Xinjiang region where it will be connected to the West East gas pipeline.
The Turkmenistan – China pipeline will deliver approximately 13 Bcm/a of gas to China by 2010 and the capacity will increase to 30 Bcm/a of gas by 2013.
Turkmenistan has also agreed to eventually supply China with 40 Bcm/a of gas in a deal signed between the two nations in June 2009.
Preparations for Phase II of the natural gas pipeline, which will extend 1,480 km from Beyneu to Shymmkent in Kazakhstan and continue to the north of the Aral Sea, began in November 2009.
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The second phase of the pipeline will run parallel to the first phase of the Turkmenistan – China pipeline and is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2010.
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