China Completes World's Longest Gas Pipeline

China has fully commissioned the world longest natural gas pipeline.

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) stated on Monday that the last section of the 8,704-kilometer west-east pipeline was completed. The pipeline cost $22.5 billion to build and would serve 500 million people while traversing through 15 provinces.

The pipeline would carry natural gas from central Asia to as far as Shanghai in east China and Guangzhou and Hong Kong in south China. It starts from Huoerguosi, located on the China-Kazakhstan border in northwest Xinjiang Uygur region, and ends at Hong Kong. 

The pipeline’s annual natural gas transportation capacity is 30 billion cubic meters.