CNPC expects to increase natural gas supplies from Central Asia to China via the China-Central Asia trunk pipeline as construction of Line D of the China-Central Asia gas pipeline is progressing rapidly, China Daily reported on Tuesday.
The company confirmed its plans to accelerate the construction of Line D of the China-Central Asia gas pipeline, which will pass through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and work together with the existing Lines A, B and C of the pipeline. Line D has a design capacity of 30 billion cubic metres of gas per year.
According to the report, the existing A, B and C lines run through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, with a design capacity of 55 bcm per year.
As reported by CNPC, the China-Central Asia Gas Pipeline delivered 42 billion cubic metres of natural gas last year, with a daily transport volume of about 100 million cubic metres of natural gas.
From the pipeline's opening in 2009 to the end of last year, 423 billion cubic metres of natural gas was delivered, supplying more than 500 million residents in 27 provincial regions and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The agreement to build the fourth branch of the gas pipeline system - Line D - from Turkmenistan to China was agreed in February 2022. Line D, which will run along the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-China route, is designed to supply China with an additional 25 billion cubic metres of gas per year as part of the second phase of development of the world's second-largest gas field, Galkynysh, located in Turkmenistan.
