CHINA REITERATES INTEREST IN PIPELINE
By empty (4/16/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A senior Chinese spokesman for the branch of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) developing oil fields in western Kazakhstan, Zhang Cheng Wu, said on 16 April that Beijing is ready to build a trans-Kazakhstan pipeline from the Caspian Sea to China if the predicted hydrocarbon reserves in the Kazakh sector of the sea are confirmed. Zhang added that a feasibility study has already been prepared, and the estimated cost of the 2,900-kilometer pipeline is $3 billion-3.5 billion, the news agency said.Visit also
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