Platts: China's Sinopec, PetroChina Connect Two Gas Pipelines

China's state-owned oil giants Sinopec and PetroChina successfully connected the Sichuan-East China gas pipeline with the second West-East gas pipeline over weekend, Sinopec said Monday, April 27. 

The connection is in Hubei province's Wuxue city. 

It runs 1.58 km and can carry up to 22.86 million cu m/day, Sinopec said. The estimated Yuan 108.74 million project was submitted to the government in 2012 and began construction in 2013. 

Sinopec's Sichuan-East China gas pipeline, which started in August 2010, is 2,170 km and can carry up to 12 Bcm/year. 

It runs from the Puguang gas field in Dazhou, Sichuan province, to Shanghai and was mainly designed to supply gas to the economically dynamic Yangtze River Delta. 

PetroChina's second West-East gas pipeline started in June 2011. It is stretches 8,704 km and can carry 30 Bcm/year.  MORE