The opening ceremony for the China-Uzbekistan section of the Central Asian gas pipeline was held on June 30 in Bukhara, an historic Central Asian city and ancient Islamic cultural centre. That same day, the first joints of the China-Uzbekistan gas pipeline section were being welded.
The Central Asian gas pipeline starts west at the Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan border; runs through central Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan; and enters China from Horgos in Xinjiang Province.
The total length of this section of pipeline is 1,801 km. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) set up a joint venture with natural gas pipeline companies as Uzbekistan Petroleum Corporation and Kazakhstan Petroleum Corporation for the pipeline's construction. It is expected to achieve single pipe operation by the end of 2009, and double pipe operation by 2010. After the completion of the project, within 30 years of operation, it will send about 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the Central Asian region to China every year. The pipeline will also join the second line of the West-East natural gas transmission project, which is under construction simultaneously, to create a length of more than 10,000 kilometers. The two projects are funded with a total investment of 30 billion U.S. dollars.
By People's Daily Online
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