Shanghai receives gas via West-East Gas Pipeline

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Shanghai receives gas via West-East Gas Pipeline

Shanghai, China's largest city and economic center, received the first natural gas supply transferred via the billion-dollar West-East Gas Pipeline project Tuesday.

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Shanghai receives gas via West-East Gas Pipeline

Shanghai, China's largest city and economic center, received the first natural gas supply transferred via the billion-dollar West-East Gas Pipeline project Tuesday.

The gas, which reached Shanghai at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday, was from Changqing Gas Field in Jingbian of Shaanxi Province in northwest China, some 1,500 km away from Shanghai.

Workers at the Baihe Gas Transfer Station in Shanghai's Qingpu District, the destination of the cross-country gas transfer project, have successfully extracted gas from the pipeline and arenow carrying out a series of tests on the quality of the gas.

The city has planned to formally introduce the western gas intothe local natural gas supply network in late November.

Wang Yuchu, general manager of the Shanghai Natural Gas Supply Co., Ltd., said that the gas from the country's west would mainly be provided for the local households, at a price of 2.1 yuan (25 cents) per cubic meter.

The daily supply from the West-East Gas Pipeline is expected tobe 500,000 cubic meters, which, along with the 1.8 million cubic meters from a gas field in the East China Sea, will help ease the city's short supply in winters, Wang added.

In view of pollution control, Shanghai has adopted an energy strategy which aims at reducing coal burning and using more natural gas. The city plans to raise its annual natural gas consumption to 3 billion to 3.5 billion cubic meters from the current 250 million by 2005.

The West-East Gas Pipeline project, which costs more than 200 billion yuan (24.1 billion US dollars), is designed to carry 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year from the Tarim Basin inthe Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and also the Changqing gas field in Shaanxi to the eastern regions.

A total of 4,000 km of pipeline will be laid for the project. The eastern section, linking Shaanxi and Shanghai has been completed and started trial operation on Oct. 1.

When the western section, from Lunnan of Xinjiang to Jingbian, is completed, the Tarim Basin will replace Changqing as the main gas source for Shanghai as of Jan. 1, 2005.

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