Kazakhstan starts construction gas pipeline to China
12:52, july 10, 2008Author: CA-NEWS (KZ)
Construction on a gas pipeline linking energy-rich Kazakhstan with China started Wednesday, a Kazakh construction company said.
DUSHANBE
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Construction on a gas pipeline linking energy-rich
Kazakhstan
with
China
started Wednesday, a Kazakh construction company said, reported AP. The pipeline should be completed by June 2010 and will have an initial annual capacity of around 4.5 billion cubic meters (160 billion cubic feet) of natural gas, Kazstroiservis said. The new transit route is part of a larger project to build two parallel pipelines connecting
China
with
Central Asia
''s vast natural gas reserves. The pipes will stretch more than 1,800 kilometers (1100 miles) from the
Turkmenistan
, cross
Uzbekistan
and
Kazakhstan
, and will enter
China
''s northwestern Xinjiang region.
China
hopes the pipelines will reach annual capacity of around 30 billion cubic meters of gas within the next three decades.
China
is growing increasingly reliant on natural gas supplies and its annual demand is expected to reach more than 200 billion cubic meters by 2020. The pipeline will also ensure diversity of export routes for
Central Asia
''s vast gas reserves. Most of regional gas exports are controlled by Russian gas giant OAO Gazprom, and the West is also vying for large-scale energy supplies from the region. Work on the 525-kilometer (325-mile) Uzbek section of the pipeline has already got under way.
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