Gas Pipeline Construction Starts in Inner Mongolia

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Gas Pipeline Construction Starts in Inner Mongolia

Construction on the gas pipeline connecting the Changqing Oilfield, China's largest gas field, with Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, started this week.

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Construction on the gas pipeline connecting the Changqing Oilfield, China's largest gas field, with Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, started this week.

The pipeline is to run through 66 villages in six banners (county-level) and three cities with a total length of 497 km. Its construction will be completed in one year and at a cost of 840 million yuan (101 million US dollars).

The pipeline is designed to carry 950 million cubic meters of gas from the Changqing Oilfield annually. When the first gas station was pressurized, the annual capacity for gas transmission would rise to 1.3 billion cubic meters, said Yang Hu'en, chairman of the region's Xibu (western part) Natural Gas Co. Ltd.

The Changqing Oilfield comprises five oilfields with proven reserves of one trillion cubic meters of natural gas at the Ordos Basin, which covers Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi provinces and Inner Mongolia and Ningxia Hui autonomous regions.

The oilfield is capable of providing gas to Beijing, Xi'an and Yinchuan cities as well as meeting the demand of 580 million cubic meters from Inner Mongolia up to 2005.

Zhou Dehai, vice-chairman of the regional government, said the pipeline was one of the key projects to help read just the energy structure, improve the urban environment and accelerate industrial development in Inner Mongolia.

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