Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline

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The Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline is a planned natural gas pipeline from Kazakhstan to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China. If constructed, the pipeline will be about 3,000 kilometer long. It will be supplied from the Karachaganak, Tengiz and Kashagan gas fields, as well from the gas fields of other Central Asian countries and Russia. There are currently three options under consideration:

expansion of the existing Bukhara-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty pipeline via Taldy-Kurgan in Kazakhstan to Alashankou in China;
construction of a new gas pipeline from Ishim in Russia's western Siberia to Alashankou through Astana and Karaganda;
construction of a new gas pipeline from Chelkar in western Kazakhstan through Kyzyl-Orda to Shimkent where it would connect with the Bukhara-Tashkent-Almaty pipeline and prolonging Bukhara-Tashkent-Almaty pipeline to Alashankou.

In China the Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline will be connected to the West-East Gas Pipeline.

The partners of this project are KazMunayGas and PetroChina. The feasibility study of pipeline is scheduled to be completed in 2007. The construction is expected to start in 2008 and the first stage with annual capacity of 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) is expected to be operational in 2009. The second stage increasing capacity up to 30 bcm of natural gas annually is projected to be completed in 2012.