Cnooc Starts Work on Shenzhen-Dapeng Pipe
China’s Cnooc Gas and Power, a unit of state-owned Cnooc, May 30 commenced work on a pipeline to connect under-construction Shenzhen LNG terminal with Dapeng LNG terminal, the company said the same day.
The pipeline is about 1.2 km long and will be completed by end-September 2018. It will increase gas supply by about 15mn m3/d during winter season to northern China.
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Last week, Dapeng LNG terminal hit a milestone of unloading and regasifying over 60 million metric tons of LNG since start of operations in 2006. Dapeng is the first import terminal to be built in China. Its present capacity is 7.7mn mt/yr and the terminal is supplying 45mn m3/d of gas to cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Huizhou, Dongguan, Foshan and Hong Kong through the 441 km pipeline. The terminal is located in Shenzhen at Chengtoujiao, Dapeng Bay, Guangdong province and receives LNG from Australia and Qatar.
The under-construction Shenzhen LNG terminal will have a capacity of 4mn mt/yr. The terminal was originally scheduled to come online in 2015.