23 September 2008
Gas pipeline to Lhasa
(Reuters) The Chinese oil and gas company, CNPC is proposing a 1,365-kilometre natural gas pipeline that could pump up to 1.2 billion cubic metres of fuel from Qinghai province to Lhasa. The pipeline would run from Tainan gas field in the Tsaidam Basin in Qinghai and run more than 500 kilometres across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau before reaching Lhasa, a local newspaper in Qinghai reported. A feasibility study of the plan has been submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission for approval, while environmental and safety review procedures were proceeding, reported the Xihai Metropolis Daily. China's military forces built a 1,080-kilometre pipeline in the 1970s that pumps refined oil products from Golmud to Lhasa.