Construction on Tajik Section of Turkmenistan-China Gas Pipeline to Start in Autumn

Construction of the Tajik section of a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China will start in early autumn this year, Tajikistan’s Asia Plus News reports citing Ministry of Energy and Water Resources (MoEWR).

An official source at a MoEWR told Asia Plus News that China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), will fund the construction of Line D (a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Tajik territory to China) and Tojiktransgaz, Tajik state-run natural gas distributor will be co-participant in the project.

A government-to-government agreement on construction of a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Tajik territory to China was signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in September last year. 

The 400-kilometer pipeline is expected to carry natural gas from Turkmenistan’s Galkynysh gas field through Afghanistan and Tajikistan into China’s northeast Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region. 

This gas pipeline is expected to be finished in 2016, says Asia Plus News.