The Mengxi coal-to-gas pipeline project has passed the review by CNOOC’s Investment Committee

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The Mengxi coal-to-gas pipeline project passed the review by CNOOC’s Investment and Budget Decision-Making Committee. Author/Source: Date: 2017-07-20 Clicks: 6 On July 17, the Mengxi coal-to-natural gas transmission pipeline project successfully passed the review by China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s Investment and Budget Decision-Making Committee. To date, the project has completed the administrative approvals required in various locations along the pipeline route, as well as the internal investment decision-making process within the head office; it is now set to be submitted to the **Development and Reform Commission for approval. The Mengxi Pipeline Project is approximately 1,279 kilometers long and runs through the four provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, and Tianjin. It is responsible for transporting coal-to-natural gas produced in the Ordos area of Inner Mongolia and the Datong area of Shanxi, as well as ensuring a stable supply of natural gas to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Previously, the project completed all the administrative approval procedures in various locations along the pipeline route, obtaining 454 approvals. It passed the reviews by the Party Committee and Investment Committee of CNOOC Oil & Gas Power Group, as well as the re-evaluation conducted by experts organized by the company’s consulting center. It also received approval from the company’s Risk Control Committee and relevant functional departments to proceed with further consideration, and ultimately succeeded in passing the decision-making process of CNOOC’s Investment Committee. Once the project as a whole receives approval from the National Development and Reform Commission, it will be constructed in phases. The first phase will focus on building the pipeline in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area, with Tianjin’s LNG to be supplied to the Hebei market first, thereby providing clean energy for air pollution control in North China as well as for the newly established **new areas. As CNOOC’s first inter-provincial long-distance natural gas pipeline, the Mengxi Pipeline brings together three different sources of gas – CNOOC’s LNG from Tianjin, coal-to-natural gas produced in Shanxi, and shale gas – and transports them to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, thereby providing a solid supply guarantee for the region’s natural gas needs. The pipeline passes through the **New Area** in Hebei Province, and features a Rongcheng distribution station as well as several distribution valve rooms. This enables natural gas to be supplied to the **New Area** locally, providing a clean energy source for its development. At the same time, the Mengxi pipeline serves as a \"public corridor\" for transporting coal-to-natural gas from western Inner Mongolia and the Datong area in Shanxi to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Bohai Sea area; it has been included in the **13th Five-Year Plan for Energy Development** as well as the 13th Five-Year Plans of the four provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions. The Mengxi pipeline is approximately 1,279 kilometers long, running through the provinces and autonomous regions of Meng, Jin, Ji, and Tianjin. It features 17 process stations and 50 valve rooms in total. The total investment in the project is 21.06 billion yuan, with the coal-to-natural gas (SNG) projects located upstream of the pipelines mainly 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.