China National Petroleum Corp has commissioned a trunkline of its Second West-East gas pipeline that links Shenzhen in southern Guangdong province and Hong Kong, the company said Thursday.
Gas started flowing through the spur on Wednesday and successfully reached the Longgu processing station, CNPC said. The pipeline connects Shenzhen and Hong Kong via a 20.8 kilometer offshore spur.
This marks full commissioning of the entire 8,653 km Second West-East pipeline, which transports imported gas from Turkmenistan across China. The western section of the main pipeline started up in January 2010. The 30 billion cubic meter/year (2.9 Bcf/d) pipeline has eight spurs linking to various parts of eastern China.
CNPC said the gas will be sold to Hong Kong power utility CLP's Black Point Power station in Tuen Mun in the New Territories.
CLP had previously said that pipeline gas from China would reduce its need for imported LNG and the company scrapped earlier plans to build an LNG receiving terminal in Hong Kong.
