OREANDA-NEWS. June 02, 2011. CNPC has announced that the Taian-Qingdao trunk of the Shandong natural gas pipeline network has begun operations.

The Shandong natural gas pipeline network includes one trunk and six branches, which extends from Taian to Weihai with a total length of 1,067 kilometers and an annual transmission capacity of 8.6 billion cubic meters, the company said.

Construction of the 342km-long Taian-Qingdao trunk began on September 28, 2009. The trunk commissioned on April 26, 2011 with natural gas reached Qingdao on April 29.

The gas sources for Shandong natural gas pipeline network are mainly from CNPC's Changqing, Qinghai and Tarim gas provinces and Central Asian countries through the Shaan-Jing Gas Pipelines, the company added.