Beijing: China has begun receiving gas from Myanmar as the new gas pipeline connecting the two nations became operational on Sunday. The pipeline is part of an ambitious $2.5 billion oil and gas pipeline project between the two countries.
Making the announcement, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said the gas pipeline will transport 12 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually. It will reduce the country’s dependence on coal and reduce its consumption by 30.72 million tonnes a year.
The project is part of a larger Chinese programme to lay a road connecting the country’s Yunnan province to the Indian border through Myanmar although New Delhi has not yet accepted it yet. China also plans to transport crude oil across the Myanmar and complete an irrigation project which Naypyitaw stalled.
Work on the pipeline was affected last year as clashes broke out between the Myanmar’s military and the Kachin Independence Organization in Kachin.
Making the announcement, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said the gas pipeline will transport 12 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually. It will reduce the country’s dependence on coal and reduce its consumption by 30.72 million tonnes a year.
The project is part of a larger Chinese programme to lay a road connecting the country’s Yunnan province to the Indian border through Myanmar although New Delhi has not yet accepted it yet. China also plans to transport crude oil across the Myanmar and complete an irrigation project which Naypyitaw stalled.
Work on the pipeline was affected last year as clashes broke out between the Myanmar’s military and the Kachin Independence Organization in Kachin.
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