China Tells

China has officially opened a natural gas pipeline with Turkumanstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan (See Article from China Daily). The pipeline will be around 1833 Kilometers long, which is the longest gas pipeline in the world. The pipeline starts from Turkumanstan and goes through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and ends in Xin Jiang of China. Such a pipeline will be able to supply China with about 40 Billion Cubic meters of Natural gas annually from 2012 onwards. For the moment China consumes slightly less than 80 Billion Cubic Meters of Gas every year. The pipeline from Turkumanstan will help China to reduce reliance on coal, which is carbon intensive and heavily pollutant. In addition, such a pipeline provides Central Asia countries with decent offtake of their resource.

中国今天正式和土库曼斯坦，乌兹别克斯坦以及哈萨克斯坦开通天然气管道。该管道从土库曼途径乌兹别克以及哈萨克进入中国新疆，全长1833公里，是世界上最长的天然气管道。该管道开通后，将可以每年提供400亿立方米天然气，占中国天然气需求的一半以上。