Gas pipeline feasibility in spotlight

The country's largest oil and gas producer has begun a feasibility study on the third west-east natural gas pipeline, after work started on the second gas pipeline in February.

China National Petroleum Corp's feasibility study should produce a preliminary plan next year, Yang Jianhong, deputy director of the oil and gas pipeline department at the China Petroleum Planning and Engineering Institute, was quoted by the 21st Century Business Herald as saying.

The pipeline will start from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and will end in Fujian province, supplying natural gas to the energy-hungry Yangtze and Pearl river deltas, Yang said. The two other pipelines do not cover Fujian.