CNPC to Construct Gas Pipeline in Cooperation With Tajiktransgaz

On March 4, China’s energy major, CNPC through its subsidiary Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company Limited, signed an agreement with Tajiktransgaz on jointly establishing a natural gas pipeline company to manage the construction of Line D of the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline. 

In November 2011, construction of Line D began after the signing of a 25 bcm/a gas supply increasing agreement between China and Turkmenistan. In September 2013, the Chinese Government signed inter-governmental agreements with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrghyzstan respectively on Line D project.

Currently, the feasibility studies of the project have been completed by Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company, CNPC said in a statement Monday. 

According to the company statement, construction of the Tajikistan section of Line D is expected to start within year 2014. By the end of China's 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020) when construction of Line A/B/C/D and the auxiliary facilities in China are completed, 80 billion cubic meters of natural gas will be transported from Central Asia to China on an annual basis, taking over 40% of China’s gas imports of the year.

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