The dailychina.com website reported today from Yichang that construction of a tunnel under the Yangtze River that will form part of a gas pipeline project running from Sichuan Province to Shanghai was completed Monday.
The dailychina.com website reported today from Yichang that The 1.4-km, 3.08-m diameter tunnel sits 20 m beneath the riverbed and connects two wells on either side of the river in Yichang city, Hubei Province, Liu Juzheng, head of the Hubei section of the pipeline, said.
The dailychina.com website reported today from Yichang that With a total length of 2,203 km, the pipeline will serve as an "energy artery" as part of the West-East gas project, Liu said.
The dailychina.com website reported today from Yichang that The pipeline is expected to channel 12.1 billion cu m of natural gas a year from the Puguang field in Sichuan to central and eastern regions of the country, including Chongqing Municipality, the provinces of Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Shanghai Municipality.
The dailychina.com website reported today from Yichang that The tunnel, which took 325 days to complete, is the first of five to be built under the Yangtze.
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