It’s almost certain that the environmental impact assessments for the five major coal-to-gas transmission pipeline projects have been approved

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There is little doubt that the environmental impact assessments for the five major coal-to-gas transmission pipeline projects have been approved. Author/Source: Date: 2017-01-12 Clicks: 6 Recently, a technical evaluation meeting regarding the \"Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the Mengxi Coal-to-Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Project\" was held in Beijing by the Environmental Engineering Assessment Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and it was successfully approved by the expert panel. This means that the approval process for the environmental impact assessment of the Mengxi coal-to-natural gas pipeline project is almost certain to be successful; all that remains is the final confirmation and approval from the **Ministry of Environmental Protection. The Mengxi coal-to-natural gas transmission pipeline project was invested in and constructed by CNOOC Gas & Power Group Co., Ltd. The proposed Mengxi coal-to-natural gas transmission pipeline project will serve as a \"public corridor\" to transport coal-to-natural gas from the Ordos region in Inner Mongolia and the Datong region in Shanxi to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area and the Bohai Rim region. It is reported that this will be CNOOC’s first inter-provincial natural gas transmission pipeline. The SNG projects upstream of the Mengxi coal-to-natural gas transmission pipeline are mainly concentrated in western Inner Mongolia and the Datong area of Shanxi. The five major coal-to-gas projects include CNOOC’s Ordos coal-to-gas project, CNOOC’s Shanxi Datong coal-to-gas project, Xinmeng Energy’s Ordos coal-to-gas project, Hebei Construction’s Ordos coal-to-gas project, and Beikong Energy’s coal-to-gas project. Among them, the coal-to-gas projects of CNOOC in Datong, Shanxi, and Beikong Energy have received approval for environmental impact assessments. The Mengxi coal-to-natural gas transmission pipeline project begins at the first station in Hangjin Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The entire pipeline runs through 9 cities and districts in 4 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, namely those in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi Province, Hebei Province, and Tianjin Municipality. The main pipeline is 1,279 kilometers long, starting from the first station in Hangjin Banner, Inner Mongolia, passing through Shanxi, Hebei, and Tianjin, and ending in Huanghua City, Cangzhou. The project mainly consists of line engineering, process stations and facilities, as well as their auxiliary supporting projects. The pipeline project includes 1 main line, 2 feed branches, 1 distribution branch, 1 tie line, and a gas production plant. Among them, the main pipeline starts at the Hangjinqi Station in Hangjinqi County, Inner Mongolia, and passes through four provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government – Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, and Tianjin – before reaching the Huanghua Station in Huanghua City, Hebei Province. The total length of this pipeline is approximately 1,022 km ； The injection branch pipelines include the main road injection branch, which is approximately 36 km long ； Zuyun Injection Branch, approximately 34 km long ； The distribution branch is the Langfang distribution branch, with a length of approximately 84 km ； The connecting line is the CNOOC Tianjin LNG connecting line, with a length of approximately 88 km ； The injection pipelines run for approximately 15 km from each gas production plant in Daliu to the first station in Daliu, from the Zuyun gas production plant to the first station in Zuyun, and from the Qingyun Group gas production plant to the Tuoketuo injection and distribution station.