From Caspian News, November 16:
The Power of Siberia gas pipeline, which is designed to deliver Russian natural gas to China, the world’s largest natural gas importer, will be launched next month, according to a statement made by China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang on Tuesday.Here's the Gazprom Announcement, October 29:
“Gas deliveries via the eastern route of the Power of Siberia is a project that has been personally coordinated by the leaders of the two countries,” RIA Novosti quoted Geng as saying at a press briefing.“It is a strategic project,” Geng added. “It has an exceptionally important significance for the enhancement of comprehensive cooperation.”
Geng’s words confirmed Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov’s comments made a day earlier that China will start receiving gas next month.
The Power of Siberia pipeline is a 3,000 kilometer (1,864 miles) route that will carry gas from Russia’s Eastern Siberia to Far East region and China. The much-anticipated project has huge implications for China's gas supplies, liquified natural gas import demand and Moscow's strategic pivot to Asian markets.
According to the 30-year Sales and Purchase Agreement inked between Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation in 2014, Russia will annually transit 35 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from the Irkutsk and Yakutia production centers to China through the Power of Siberia pipeline.
The construction of the $13 billion project is ahead of schedule. In October, Gazprom announced it has completed filling the Power of Siberia pipeline with natural gas....MORE
Power of Siberia pipeline filled up with gas
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