According to an official with the Planning and Engineering Institute of PetroChina, CNPC the parent company of PetroChina is conducting the preparatory work to build the second phase of the Central Asia-China natural gas pipeline from Kazakhstan Beyneu to Shymmken.
Speaking at the Asia Pipeline Summit 2009 in Beijing, the official said that cooperation partners from China and Kazakhstan are also having talks on financing, shares structure and other issues on the pipeline.
Phase II of the natural gas pipeline will extend 1,480 kilometers and run in the north of the Aral Sea. It will be 1,016 mm in diameter and have a capacity of 5 to 10 billion cubic meters.
The official said that one of the two parallel 1,792 kilometers gas pipelines from Turkmenistan to China's border port Horgos has just come on stream in early November.
The second pipeline is scheduled to come into operation at the end of 2010.
The first phase of Central Asia-China natural gas pipeline is planned to increase its imports to China to 4.5 to 10 billion cubic meters by 2010, 17 billion cubic meters by 2011 and 30 billion cubic meters by 2012.
(Sourced from www.chinamining.org)
