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| | As the country's largest gas supplier and pipeline operator, CNPC, giving priority to residential gas and guaranteeing industrial gas in key areas, has expanded upstream gas production and enhanced capacity for transportation and distribution, so as to help the regions fight winter cold. | | | | Expanding gas supplies | | | | CNPC has increased its daily gas supply to about 200 million cubic meters from 169 million cubic meters in the beginning of November through boosting production of the four major gas provinces — Tarim, Changqing, Southwest and Qinghai — to the maximum capacity, and employing the underground gas storages. | | |  | | | | Enhancing pipeline delivery capacity | | | | While boosting production, measures are taken to raise pipeline delivery and distribution capacity through CNPC's unified control of its pipeline network. | | | - Speeding up the commissioning and adjusting the load of compressor stations along the West-East and the Second Shaan-Jing gas pipelines to enhance pipeline deliverability;
- Preserving a high pipeline storage in advance to cope with gas usage peak, with accumulatively 50 million cubic meters of gas supply from pipeline storage since early November;
- Optimizing and regulating the operation of pipeline network timely and raising terminal pressure of the pipelines to ensure safe gas supply to end users;
- Maintaining a smooth switching of underground gas storage injection and extraction while increasing extracting volume in accordance with the balance of pipeline network, extracting gas from the underground storage five days earlier compared to last year;
- Moderately reducing gas supply to power generation and industrial use so as to ensure the supply to residential use.
At present, CNPC's backbone gas pipelines, including the Shaan-Jing, West-East, Sebei-Xining-Lanzhou and Zhongxian-Wuhan pipelines, have reached their maximum delivery capacity and been operated at full load. Meanwhile, special attention is given to pipeline operating maintenances in wintertime to ensure safe and stable supplies. | |  |
| | | | Building pipelines for gas importation | | | | China's natural gas production is increasing by 10 billion cubic meters annually in recent years. However, it is still hard to meet the rapid growth in consumption. Analysts said China's natural gas consumption would continue to see rapid growth in the long run, which is in line with the government's policy to use more clean energy. CNPC is now building the Second West-East Gas Pipeline and the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline, which are expected to be operational at the end of this year. Five billion cubic meters of natural gas will be exported from Central Asian countries via these two pipelines next year and the volume will be boosted to 30 billion cubic meters in 2012. | |  |
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