“The Guangdong LNG project was approved by the government in October 2003, with the first phase of the project under construction in the eastern part of Shenzhen,” Shenzhen Dapeng LNG Co said in a statement.

“The terminal will have two LNG storage tanks of 160,000 cubic metres each and will be capable of supplying some 3.7 million metric tonnes per year of LNG to Guangdong province.”

“The LNG pipeline will be 367 km, covering Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Foshan cities in the southern province [and] will supply LNG to the Huizhou LNG power plant, Shenzhen Qianwan LNG power plant, East Shenzhen LNG power plant and the Pearl River LNG power plant.”

Meanwhile the South China Morning Post reports that the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) is to build a US$15.5 million gas pipeline in the southern province of Hainan to transport natural gas from eastern Hainan to the industrial zone of Yangpu.

“The project, which would carry 1.6 billion cubic metres of natural gas each year, is scheduled for completion in three years,” CNOOC gas pipelining director Tang Xinchuan.

“Construction has already started [and] transmission capacity has reached 700 million cubic metres a year.”