Kazakhstan To Biuld Pipeline To China

Kazakhstan suggested to China to build a gas pipeline to Chinese territory.

The first project calls for building a new branch of the pipeline from Almaty to the Chinese border. There is now a section of pipeline to Almaty that transports fuel from the Amangeldy gas condensate field to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

The second project calls for the pipeline to be built from the oil and gas fields in west Kazakhstan to Chimkent, then toward Almaty and China.

The third proposal is to build a branch from Omsk to the south of Kazakhstan through Astana and then toward the Kazakh-Chinese border.

China prefers the first proposal, because it is the least complicated from the technical point of view, and construction could be started quickly, the source said.
The third project is most beneficial from Kazakhstan's point of view, because it would allow the connection of the Russian pipeline with the Chinese pipeline.