Location: Alay and Chon-Alay regions of Osh oblast, Kyrgyzstan
Sector: Energy
Initiative (if applicable): BRI
Source of funding: China National Petroleum Corporation
Total cost: $ 1.2 billion
Implementer (contractor/ operator): SINO-Pipeline International Company Limited
Start (of construction): planned 2013, actual start: end of 2019 Kyrgyz section2011
Planned completion: planned 2016, actual completion: 20202013
INVESTORS SUMMARY
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is an integrated international energy company.
Based in China, it has oil and gas assets and interests in more than 30 countries in Africa, Central Asia-Russia, America, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and other regions.
CNPC is China's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, as well as one of the world's major oilfield service providers and a globally reputed contractor in engineering construction, with businesses covering petroleum exploration & production, natural gas & pipelines, refining & marketing, oilfield services, engineering construction, petroleum equipment manufacturing and new energy development, as well as capital management, finance and insurance services.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
The agreement on the construction of the fourth branch "D" of the gas pipeline "Turkmenistan-China" via Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan was signed in September 2013 and construction was to be completed in 2016. At present, 3 lines of the Turkmenistan-China pipeline (lines A, B, C) have been built and are functioning with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year. The project was postponed because of volatility in the gas market in Turkmenistan. The project was not implemented on time because there are difficult conditions for its realization in Tajikistan. According to the Kyrgyz chairman on Energy and Mineral Resources, there are many passes, tunnels and rivers in the area. In addition, Turkmenistan has not yet issued a plan for the production of natural gas.
According to Bishkek agency "Kabar" with reference to the chairman of the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Mineral Resources Ulanbek Ryskulov, in Kyrgyzstan, at the end of 2019, construction of a transit gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China will begin. The project according to plan will be accomplished by 2020. The gas pipeline will stretch across the territory of Alay and Chon-Alay regions of Osh oblast through Irkeshtam and Karamyk chackpoints.
PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
The line D gas pipeline is designed to start from Turkmenistan, then through Uzbekistan and Tajikistan it will come to Kyrgyzstan and from there it will go to China.
Line D was supposed to carry some 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Turkmen natural gas annually to China. The line took a different route. Lines A, B, and C all went from Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan before reaching China. To include all the Central Asian states, Beijing decided to route Line D through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and then into China. Within the project, it is planned that during the construction approximately 1 thousand work positions will be created, 200 work places after putting the operation. Kyrgyzstan agreed with the company that 80% of workers will be from among the local residents.
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