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China completes extension of Power of Siberia highway for Russia’s natural gas supply to Shanghai

BEIJING, 7 December – RIA Novosti. China has completed the extension of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline on its territory to supply natural gas from Russia to Shanghai, the agency reported on Wednesday. xinhua regarding PipeChina, the construction company responsible for the project.

“The Taian-Taixing section of the eastern route of the China-Russia gas pipeline has officially been put into operation. This means that the eastern route of this cross-border gas pipeline has been extended to its final point in Shanghai, in eastern China,” the report says.

According to the information given by the construction company to the agency, the eastern branch of the China-Russia natural gas pipeline on the territory of China starts from the border city of Heihe and ends in Shanghai. The total length of the branch in China is 5,111 kilometers, of which 3,371 kilometers are newly built, the remaining 1,740 kilometers. previously opened for business.

The agency noted that once the entire route is put into service, Russia’s natural gas supplies to the provinces in northeast China, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Yangtze River Delta region will increase.

“By 2025, the gas supply volume is expected to stabilize at 38 billion cubic meters per year, which will allow the above regions to reduce their annual carbon dioxide emission volume by 164 million tons and sulfur dioxide by 1.82 million tons,” the agency quotes a company representative.

Gazprom currently supplies pipeline gas to China via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, which is its eastern route. Deliveries that started at the end of 2019 increased to 4.1 billion cubic meters in 2020 and 10.4 billion cubic meters in 2021, and it is planned to reach an annual design capacity of 38 billion cubic meters for 2025.

Source: Ria

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