Why in the News?
Russian Vladimir Putin and Chinese Presidents Xi Jinping inaugurated the first cross-border pipeline between their countries, called the “Power of Siberia” on December 2, 2019.
What is Power of Siberia?
The “Power of Siberia” project will see a gas pipeline stretching from the Chayandinskoye and Kovyktinskoye fields in Russia’s east over more than 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) to Liaoning in northeastern China.
The aim of this gas pipeline is to pump natural gas to China and Russia’s far-east regions.
In May 2014, Russia and China signed a $400 billion deal for the delivery of 38 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually for a period of 30 years.
The Chinese section of this pipeline is over 3,371 km long from Heihe in northern China to Shanghai.
Construction for this segment started in September 2014.
The over 4,000 km gas pipeline has an annual capacity of over 61 billion cubic metres and passes through wetlands, mountainous terrains, seismically active zones, areas of permafrost and rocky ground. (Source: The Indian Express)
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