Kyrgyzstan-China Pipe Work to Start 2019
The central Asian republic Kyrgyzstan plans to start building the 215-km section of the Central Asia-China-D line in late 2019, the head of the state industry committee Ulanbek Ryskulov said December 18. He said it would cost $1.2bn and take three years.
The three parallel branches (A,B,C) of the central Asia-China pipeline, each about 1,830 km long, have already become operational, totalling 55bn m3/yr. They all start in Turkmenistan, pass through Uzbekistan and end at Khorgos on the Kazakhstan-China border.
The 1,000-km D line, passing through Turkmenistan-Tajikistan-Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan to China, would add 30bn m3 to the central Asia-China pipeline capacity. None of participating countries has started building it yet.
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are not gas exporters, but the line D is almost about 55% shorter than the other central Asia-China branches and would supply west China. Lines A, B, C as well as Russia’s Power of Siberia (with 38bn m3/yr) are designed to reach China’s north-west regions.