Project Profile
Value: US$2,975 million
Location: Uzbekistan to China
Start-up Year: 2011
Capacity: 30 billion cubic metres per year
The project will see the construction of a 530 km gas pipeline from Uzbekistan to China with a capacity of 30 billion cubic metres per year. The project will include plans to bring two compressor stations on stream. The pipeline aims to transit gas from Turkmenistan. It is tentatively planned to start the gas pipeline at Alata (20 km from the border with Turkmenistan), and to use existing sections of the Bukhara-Ural gas pipeline, and then the pipeline will pass through the republic to intersect with the Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline, which is being designed.
The project involves the construction of two branches of the main gas pipeline:
- The first branch and the KS1 compressor station are due to be completed before December 31, 2009. These facilities are expected to be commissioned in January 2010.
- The second pipeline branch and two compressor stations, KS2 and KS3, are scheduled for completion and commissioning before December 31, 2011.
Operators:
CNPC
Uzbekneftegaz
Contractors:
Alcatel-Lucent
Rolls-Royce: Supply equipment and related services to power the flow of natural gas