China imported 2 million mt of natural gas via pipelines in October, up 8.8% from a year earlier, data released Saturday, November 22, by the country’s General Administration of Customs showed. China’s customs department reports natural gas trade data in metric tons, similar to LNG imports. The October inflow works out to about 2.75 billion cubic meters of pipeline gas, a 0.9% increase from September. Despite the overall increase, China’s gas imports from Turkmenistan in October fell 20.8% year on year and 23.7% month on month to 1.29 million mt, while imports from Uzbekistan jumped 34.9% year on year to 240,379 mt. China’s gas imports from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are transported through the Central Asia-China gas pipeline network that links with state-owned China National Petroleum Corp.’s Second West-East Pipeline in western Xinjiang province at the border with Kazakhstan. Chinese gas pipeline imports from Kazakhstan, […]