Russia aims to unlock huge pipeline to China

As President Putin meets Xi Jinping in Beijing, he hopes energy turmoil from the Middle East conflict will make China more flexible in talks over the planned Power of Siberia 2 pipeline project

Gas pipelines to China
Existing
Proposed / Under construction

Power of Siberia 2
Length: 2,600km
Capacity: 50 bcm/yr*

Power of Siberia ​1
38 bcm/yrCentral Asia-
China Pipelines
40 bcm/yr
Sino-Myanmar Pipeline
12 ​bcm/yr
China-Russia Far East Pipeline
10 bcm/yr

RUSSIA
CHINA
Beijing
Changchun
Hulin
Blagoveshchensk
Kovykta
Shijiazhuang
Shanghai
Guigang
Rakhine
Saman-Depe
TURKMENISTAN
UZBEKISTAN
MYANMAR
Horgos
Yamal
Bay of Bengal
South China Sea
Sea of Okhotsk
INDIAN OCEAN
PACIFIC OCEAN
Strait of Hormuz
MONGOLIA
KAZAKHSTAN
IRAN
INDIA
JAPAN

China’s natural gas imports through pipelines accounts for around 19% of domestic consumption

*billion cubic metres of gas per year
Sources: Global Energy Monitor, Bloomberg, Reuters
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