【History of Haichuan Pipelines】The world’s longest gas pipeline – the Central Asia to China pipeline

The China-Central Asia gas pipeline begins at the border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on the right bank of the Amu Darya River. It passes through central Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, entering China via Horgos, and thus forms part of the \"West-East Gas Pipeline Project II\". The total length of the pipeline is about 10,000 kilometers, of which 188 kilometers are in Turkmenistan, 530 kilometers in Uzbekistan, 1,300 kilometers in Kazakhstan, and the remaining approximately 8,000 kilometers are located in China. The pipeline is laid in two lines, AB, with each line being 1,833 kilometers long; it is the longest natural gas pipeline in the world. Line C has also been laid, and Line D is under installation. Since its commissioning in December 2009, as of June 30, 2019, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline lines A/B/C had delivered a total of 277.4 billion cubic meters of gas to China.

In June 2003, during **the leader’s** visit to Kazakhstan, an intent agreement was signed to complete this project as soon as possible. Kazakhstan’s **oil and gas company and China National Petroleum Corporation subsequently began feasibility studies on a gas pipeline project, while China continued consultations with other Central Asian **countries. On April 3, 2006, China and Turkmenistan signed a framework agreement on the construction of a gas pipeline and long-term natural gas supply. In June 2007, Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed an agreement to accelerate the construction of this gas pipeline project during his visit to China. In July, Turkmenistan officially joined the existing China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline. On November 8, 2007, Kazakhstan’s oil company KazMunayGas signed a principle agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation regarding the construction of future pipelines. On August 30, 2007, construction began on the 188-kilometer section in Turkmenistan. Construction of the Uzbekistan section began on June 30, 2008. The Kazakhstan section also began construction on July 9, 2008, with the first phase completed in July 2009. On December 12, 2009, **during a visit to Kazakhstan, the completion of that section was announced. Two days later, on December 14, **during his visit to Turkmenistan, he attended the ceremony marking the full operation of the Central Asian gas pipeline together with the leaders of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

Xinjiang Horgos, China News Service, July 28 (Zhu Jingchao, Li Ming) From January to June this year, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline transported 19.088 billion cubic meters of imported natural gas, providing an energy supply to support epidemic control efforts in China. The reporter obtained the above information on the 28th from the Khorgos metering station of the Central Asia Gas Pipeline. The Central Asia Gas Pipeline is China’s first cross-border energy pipeline for natural gas supplied via land. It starts at the border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, runs through central Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, and enters China through the Horgos port in Xinjiang. The Central Asia gas pipeline currently operates with three parallel lines, ABC. Upon entering the country, it connects to the West-East Gas Pipeline Lines 2 and 3 via the Horgos compression station. Each year, the natural gas transported to China via the Central Asian gas pipeline accounts for over 15% of China’s total natural gas consumption during that period, benefiting more than 500 million people in 27 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions. According to staff at the Khorgos metering station of the Central Asia Gas Pipeline, while taking measures to prevent the spread of the virus, the workers are making every effort to ensure safe production. It is reported that the Horgos metering station of the Central Asia Gas Pipeline conducts 12 inspections per day, 24 hours a day, to ensure that the daily gas delivery volume remains at 100 million cubic meters. Since its commissioning in December 2009, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline has been operating safely and stably for over 10 years. By the end of June 2020, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline had transported a total of 316 billion cubic meters of imported natural gas. (End)

Beijing, China, July 3 (Xinhua News Agency) — Meng Fanchun, deputy general manager of CNPC Central Asia Gas Pipeline Co., Ltd., said here on July 3 that the China-Central Asia Gas Pipeline Line D project is under preparation. Once completed and put into operation, the gas transportation capacity of the Central Asia pipeline will reach 85 billion cubic meters per year, making it the largest gas transmission system in the Central Asia region. On that day, at the China-Kyrgyzstan \"Silk Road Economic Belt\" seminar jointly organized by institutions such as the Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Economy, the Academy of Social Sciences, Bishkek Humanities University, and the Confucius Institute at Bishkek Humanities University, Meng Fanchun delivered a speech titled \"Building an Energy Silk Road for Harmonious Win-Win Results\". According to him, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Line D starts at the border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, passes through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan before reaching China.

CNPC’s largest overseas natural gas project company – Amu Darya Gas Company

Amu Darya Gas Company was established in September 2007, and is primarily responsible for the organization and implementation of natural gas exploration and development projects on the right bank of the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan. A responsible official from Amu Darya Gas Company told a reporter from 21st Century Business Herald that the Amu Darya project is CNPC’s largest offshore onshore natural gas exploration and development partnership to date; it is also the only onshore block natural gas revenue sharing contract signed by Turkey with a foreign oil and gas company. According to CNPC, since its commissioning on December 14, 2009, as of 12:00 on August 2, Amu Darya Gas Company has produced a total of 66.759 billion cubic meters of raw gas, and has exported a total of 61.703 billion cubic meters of commercial gas.

10 years of exploration have established a solid resource foundation. Looking back, the Amu Darya project is an important international cooperation initiative closely linked to the Central Asia Gas Pipeline, and it was born under the joint push of the leaders of China and Turkey. Guo Jiaofeng, assistant director of the Institute for Resources and Environment Policy at the Development Research Center of the State Council, analyzed for a reporter from 21st Century Business Herald that in the field of natural gas, China and Turkey have complementary advantages in terms of resources and markets. Among them, Turkmenistan, as the fourth-largest country in the world in terms of natural gas resources, possesses abundant natural gas reserves and urgently needs to diversify its exports in order to overcome the constraints posed by a reliance on a single export route and achieve greater economic benefits. As the world’s second-largest economy, China has a huge demand for clean energy; at the same time, considering energy security, it also needs a long-term and stable supply of energy. Thanks to their favorable geographical advantages, in 2005, driven by discussions between the leaders of the two countries, they achieved a strategic alignment in natural gas matters, and negotiations on specific energy cooperation were gradually launched. On April 3, 2006, the then President of China and the then President of Turkmenistan, Niyazov, signed in Beijing the \"General Agreement between China and Turkmenistan on the Implementation of the China-Turkmenistan Gas Pipeline Project and the Sale of Turkmenian Gas to China\", which marked the first time in Chinese history that a president of China signed an agreement with a foreign head of state. Under the agreement, over the next 30 years, Turkmenistan will supply China with 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year via the Central Asian Gas Pipeline. The source of this gas consists of two parts: 13 billion cubic meters per year from gas produced by CNPC in its contract area on the right bank of the Amu Darya River, and 17 billion cubic meters per year supplied by Turkmenistan’s gas consortium.