The third Shaanxi-Beijing gas pipeline in northern China started work on Friday to increase supply to to northern China by 20 million cubic meters/day of gas, the pipeline's owner and operator, China's largest oil and gas supplier China National Petroleum Corp. said on Tuesday.
CNPC said in a statement that the pipeline starts from the city of Yulin in central China's Shaanxi province, running through Shanxi province, Hebeijing province and reaching its destination at Liangxiang gas station in southwestern Beijing, with a total length of 896 km (555.5 miles). The designed annual transportation capacity is 15 billion cubic meters.
The third pipeline is fed both by gas from the Changqing oilfield in Shaanxi province and imported gas from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. The gas mainly supplies Beijing and Shandong province, with some supplies going to neighboring Tianjin, Hebei and Shanxi provinces too.
Now all the gas supplied for the Beijing market is from the three Shaanxi-Beijing gas pipelines. The first and second pipelines started operation in 1997 and 2005 respectively with a total annual transportation capacity of 20 billion cubic meters. Both run from Jingbian in Shaanxi province, CNPC said.
--Silvia Yu
CNPC said in a statement that the pipeline starts from the city of Yulin in central China's Shaanxi province, running through Shanxi province, Hebeijing province and reaching its destination at Liangxiang gas station in southwestern Beijing, with a total length of 896 km (555.5 miles). The designed annual transportation capacity is 15 billion cubic meters.
The third pipeline is fed both by gas from the Changqing oilfield in Shaanxi province and imported gas from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. The gas mainly supplies Beijing and Shandong province, with some supplies going to neighboring Tianjin, Hebei and Shanxi provinces too.
Now all the gas supplied for the Beijing market is from the three Shaanxi-Beijing gas pipelines. The first and second pipelines started operation in 1997 and 2005 respectively with a total annual transportation capacity of 20 billion cubic meters. Both run from Jingbian in Shaanxi province, CNPC said.
--Silvia Yu
