China has imported 294.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Central Asia, mainly from Turkmenistan, in the 10 years since the start of the pipeline's commissioning, Trend reported, citing Xinhua news Agency. The data was borrowed from PetroChina West Pipeline.
This has benefited more than 500 million people in 27 provincial-level administrative units, as well as the Hong Kong special administrative region. China receives from Turkmenistan more than 15 percent of the country's annual consumption of this type of fuel. It also provides data that in 2019 alone, more than 47.9 billion cubic meters of natural gas were delivered through the Central Asia - China gas pipeline. At the same time, it should be taken into account that Turkmenistan last year, according to official data, planned to export 40 billion cubic meters of gas to China.
Turkmenistan ranks fourth in the world in terms of gas reserves, and China is the largest consumer of energy resources. The route of the gas pipeline passes through the territories of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. It is planned to build the fourth line of the gas pipeline-through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The commissioning of this gas pipeline will increase the volume of export gas. Eventually, it is planned to increase them to 65 billion a year, which is more than one and a half times more than the current figures.
The total length of the pipeline is more than 9,000 kilometers.
