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Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a pipeline at an earlier stage of the massive Sila Sibiri construction. Stock Photography.
The infamous smog in the Beijing area should now be able to clarify something. At least that’s the hope since a large gas pipeline from Russia was put into operation.
The pipeline through which the gas has now begun to flow is an extension of the giant Sila Sibiri (“The Power of Siberia”) project, which releases fossil gas from fields north of Mongolia to eastern Russia and now also into the south to China.
The extension stretches 110 km southwest from Jilin in northeast China to Hebei. Thus, Russian gas reaches the densely populated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area, where a quarter of the country’s polluting steel industry is located, reports the Reuters news agency.
The new pipeline will contain 27 million cubic meters of gas per day, according to a statement from the state oil and gas company COGPNG. In part, it should mean better air, because natural gas pollutes less than, say, coal, and in part a conduit for economic development, it is said.
In the next stage, the gas pipeline will continue further south, to the Shanghai area. When the pipeline system is fully completed in 2025, annual gas volumes could reach 38 billion cubic meters.
Russia is investing heavily in its fossil gas exports, also to the west. But gas to Europe goes on other lines, starting further west in Russia.
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