Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Oct. 20 / Trend H.Hasanov /
About 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas, of which 13 billion will be obtained from the Bagtyyarlyk contract area, will be supplied to China by 2012 via the Trans-Asian pipeline, Turkmengaz State Concern Chairman Dovlet Mommayev said at the Ashgabat investment forum.
He said the remaining 17 billion cubic meters will be supplied from fields in the left bank of the Amu Darya River.
Mommaev stressed that the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China pipeline lengths 7,000 kilometers, which was launched in 2009, is "the largest international energy project" in the modern world history.
A general agreement on the construction of this pipeline, and annual supply of 30 billion cubic meters of the Turkmen natural gas to China for three decades was signed on April 3, 2006.
Mommayev said the Turkmengaz and Chinese CNPC signed an agreement in June 2009 in Ashgabat to increase the gas supply from Turkmenistan to China by 10 billion cubic meters per year.
The latest technology was used in the construction of the pipeline. In particular, for the first time in Turkmenistan the part of the new pipeline was laid under the bottom of the Amu Darya River. A stalk with diameter of 1,420 mm and a length of 1,740 meters was laid under the bottom of the river for the first time in the world.
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