Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Feb.18 / Trend H. Hasanov /
Turkmenistan supplied 5.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China via the trans-national gas pipeline by mid-February 2011, which was commissioned on Dec. 14, 2009, CNPC said.
The pipeline with length of 1,833 km originates at the Turkmen-Uzbek border, passes through Uzbekistan's center, southern Kazakhstan, and gets to the Chinese border in the Khorgos region.
The project was implemented by the CNPC and allowed Turkmenistan to expand sales market, limited to supplies to Iran and Russia.
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) plans to import 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the right bank of the Amu Darya in Turkmenistan in 2011.
CNPC operates in Turkmenistan on the basis of exclusive PSA to develop onshore field Bagtyyarlyk in the Lebap region of the country. The Turkmen Government will sign all other PSAs with foreign companies only on offshore blocks in the Caspian Sea. CNPC has recently announced the discovery of a large gas field near Amu Darya with the resources of more than 100 billion cubic meters.