PetroChina to “double” natural gas pipelines by 2015
Mon, 9 March 2009
PETROCHINA is reported to be planning to almost double the length of its natural gas pipelines by 2015 to meet rising demand for the fuel. China’s major oil and gas producer will add 21,000km of new gas pipelines to its networks by the end of 2015, bringing the total to 43,000km, parent China National Petroleum Corp (CNOC) said. About half of the expansion will come from the nation’s second west-east gas pipeline, which is under construction and due for completion in 2011.
This line, stretching 6,500km from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to Guangdong Province, will be able to deliver 30m cum/yr of gas from Central Asia, or nearly half of the national consumption in 2007. The total length increases to 9,102km when the projects eight subsidiary pipelines are taken into account; as well as these, the overall project includes the 1,794-km pipeline through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to the boarder in Xinjiang. Turkmenistan has agreed to supply gas to China for 30 years.
PetroChina is also considering building China's third west-east gas pipeline.
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