At a recent conference held in the Chinese province of Guangxi, it was announced that the province plans to build fourteen new gas pipelines with a total length of 2,517.2 kilometers. The total investment in the new gas pipelines is expected to reach RMB 5.226 billion ($800 million).
Of the fourteen pipelines, construction has already begun on the Guangzhou-Nanning line which has a designed annual transportation capacity of 12 billion cubic meters and is expected to come on stream by the end of June 2012. By then, users will have access to lower-priced natural gas in three cities in the province, namely, in Nanning, Wuzhou and Guigang.