PipeChina starts key tunnel work for Sino-Russian gas pipeline
By Zheng Xin |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2021-05-19 11:10
PipeChina has started tunneling through the Yangtze River for its China-Russia East-Route natural gas pipeline on Tuesday. [Photo/pipechina.com.cn]
China Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Corp, the country's largest energy infrastructure company, said it has started tunneling through the Yangtze River for its China-Russia East-Route natural gas pipeline on Tuesday, marking new progress in the two countries' energy cooperation to improve the capacity of the natural gas supply in China.
The project will hold records as the world's longest single excavation, the deepest tunnel, the highest water pressure, and the largest diameter tunnel of its kind, said the company.