Major work done on west-east pipeline
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June 14, 2011, Tuesday
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CONSTRUCTION was completed on the infrastructure for the major line of China's second west-east natural gas pipeline, China National Petroleum Corporation, the project's contractor, announced yesterday.
Repeated tests on the main line of this massive gas transmission project will be conducted before it is put into service later this month, a CNPC spokesman said.
The pipeline will carry natural gas from Turkmenistan and northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the Yangtze River and Pearl River deltas.
It will be China's first natural gas pipeline to transmit gas from a foreign country.
The second west-east pipeline project, with a combined length of 8,653 kilometers, will pass through 15 Chinese regions.
The project consists of eight sub-lines and one major line that will extend 4,865 kilometers from Khorgos in Xinjiang to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province.
Construction on the western section of the pipeline began in February 2008 and on the eastern part one year later.
With a budget of 142.2 billion yuan (US$21.88 billion), the pipeline has a designed capacity of 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually with a minimum lifespan of 30 years.
Experts said the project will improve China's energy consumption structure by increasing natural gas use.
The project is expected to save 76.8 million tons of coal from being burned, which would help cut emissions, including discharges of carbon dioxide by 130 million tons and sulfur dioxide by 1.44 million tons.
The first west-east pipeline, which pipes gas from the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang to Shanghai, transmits 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
Repeated tests on the main line of this massive gas transmission project will be conducted before it is put into service later this month, a CNPC spokesman said.
The pipeline will carry natural gas from Turkmenistan and northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the Yangtze River and Pearl River deltas.
It will be China's first natural gas pipeline to transmit gas from a foreign country.
The second west-east pipeline project, with a combined length of 8,653 kilometers, will pass through 15 Chinese regions.
The project consists of eight sub-lines and one major line that will extend 4,865 kilometers from Khorgos in Xinjiang to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province.
Construction on the western section of the pipeline began in February 2008 and on the eastern part one year later.
With a budget of 142.2 billion yuan (US$21.88 billion), the pipeline has a designed capacity of 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually with a minimum lifespan of 30 years.
Experts said the project will improve China's energy consumption structure by increasing natural gas use.
The project is expected to save 76.8 million tons of coal from being burned, which would help cut emissions, including discharges of carbon dioxide by 130 million tons and sulfur dioxide by 1.44 million tons.
The first west-east pipeline, which pipes gas from the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang to Shanghai, transmits 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
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