China starts dedicated shale gas pipelines

摘要

Singapore-China’s state-owned oil giants Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp. this month started up dedicated shale gas pipelines that will facilitate deliveries from the only commercial shale gas projects in the country to date as the companies prepare to boost production. Operations on the Fuling-Wangchang pipe- line began Monday, Sinopec said in a state- ment posted on its website. The 136.5 kilo- meter pipeline will connect the Fuling shale block to the company’s Sichuan-East China pipeline network which transmits gas from its prolific fields in the central Sichuan Basin to China’s eastern regions.