Line C of Kazakhstan-China Gas Pipeline Inaugurated

Originally published in Natural Gas Asia

Third line or Line C of the Kazakhstan-China main gas pipeline was officially inaugurated on Monday in Almaty.

Governor of Almaty region Amandyk Batalov, CEO of KazTransGas Kairat Sharipbayev, Vice President of PetroChina Lv Gongxun, Vice Minister of Energy Magzum Mirzagaliyev and other officials attended the ceremony, reported Kazakh news agency Kazinform.

The main gas pipeline is a part of Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China trans-border gas pipeline, which is 7,500 km in length. The capacity of all three lines (A, B, C) of the Kazakhstan-China main gas pipeline will be 55 bcm.

The length of Line C is 1,303 km. The first line was put into operation in December 2009 while second line was commissioned in October 2010. The capacity of A and B lines reached 30 bcm after five gas-compressor stations were commissioned in 2012, Kazinform said.