China starts construction of first transnational gas pipeline

摘要

Construction work has begun on the Chinese leg of a pipeline that will bring gas from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China. When the 30 Bcm/y Central Asian Gas Pipeline (CAGP) is complete, scheduled for 2011, it will be China’s first transnational pipeline. The CAGP will join up with both of China’s West-East pipelines, the second of which is currently under construction. Gas from the three Central Asian countries will then be able to supply China’s industrialised east coast. The pipeline is about 1,800 km in total length, including a 1,300-km-long section across Kazakhstan.