ABSTRACT
The pipeline industry in China is just growing with
the economic development of the new China, though
China was the first country to transport liquid with
pipes in the world. With the development of oilfields
Daqing, Liaohe and Shengli, the eastern crude oil
pipeline network was constructed to connect the nor-
theastern, northern and eastern China in 1970s. Fur-
thermore, accompanied by the exploitation of oil and
gas fields Xinjiang, Tarim, Tuha, Sichuan and
Changqing which are all located in western China,
the western crude oil pipelines and gas pipeline net-
work in the Sichuan-Chongqing region have been
constructed, respectively in the last ten years of last
century. Entering the 21th century, the construction
length of oil and gas pipelines in China, especially
the gas pipelines, increases rapidly with the devel-
opment of economy. At present, the natural gas con-
sumption areas in China have shifted from surround-
ing regions of oil and gas sources to target markets
in developed area. The natural gas pipeline network
gradually formed, which is characterized by the
main trunk lines as the skeleton, connecting the
trunk lines with branch lines and covering the na-
tionwide consumption markets, leads to the fact that
the development speed and technical level of the
pipeline industry in China have stridden into the
world advanced level. In this paper, the current sta-
tus and technical level of the gas pipelines in China
were analyzed and summarized. In addition, the fu-
ture technology development of the gas pipelines
was discussed.
