China Launches Landmark Central Asia Gas Pipeline
Monday, December 14, 2009 at 4:05 pm
SAMANDEPE: A landmark pipeline carrying natural gas from Central Asia to China has begun working in a development that will loosen Russia’s grip over the region’s vast energy resources.
The leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan jointly turned on the tap to the pipeline Monday in northeastern Turkmenistan, sending the first gas on its way to energy-hungry China.
The pipeline is the first major Central Asia gas export route to bypass Russia. It will play a key role in wresting the former Soviet republics in the region out of Moscow’s economic sphere of influence.
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