哈萨克斯坦准备向中国出口天然气

KazTransGaz (KTG), a subsidiary of state-owned KazMunaiGaz (KMG) plans to start exporting gas to China by the Central Asia-China gas pipeline later this year, said a company official, without saying how much.”As part of the agreement reached between KMG and China’s PetroChina, we will start to export gas of Kazakh origin to China in the fourth quarter. So, in the coming winter, Chinese consumers will receive not only Turkmen and Uzbek gas, but also fuel from Kazakhstan,” announced KGT chairman and general director Rustam Suleimanov after a meeting to discuss the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China gas export pipeline September 22.As he explained, following the construction and commissioning of the Kazakh section and four compressor stations on string C of the pipeline, its export capacity reached 20bn m³/yr.