By an OGJ Online Correspondent
BEIJING, Oct. 1 -- CNOOC Petroleum & Chemical Co. Ltd., with 30% partner Hainan Fuel and Chemical Corp., next year will begin building a 256-km pipeline from Dongfang gas field in the South China Sea to Haikou City in Hainan province via Yangpu.
The project was announced last year (OGJ, June 5, 2000, p. 63). Work will begin in the first half of 2002, and be completed in August 2003.
The 490 million yuan ($59.2 million) pipeline will have 800 million cu m/year of capacity, expandable to 1.6 billion cu m.
Capacity of 700 million cu m is earmarked for power generation at Yangpu Power Plant and 100 million cu m for household consumption in Haikou City.
CNOOC Ltd. operates Dongfang field, which will start production in September 2003 with initial flow of 1.6 billion cu m/year, expandable to 2.4 billion cu m/year.