With a designed transportation capacity of 10 MMt/a, the new section runs approximately 760 km from the Kenkiyak oil field – operated by China National Petroleum Corporation – to Kumkol, very close the the Chinese border.
The two countries agreed to build the approximately 3,000 km Kazakhstan – China pipeline in 1997, and the initial 1,200 km section from Atasu in Kazakhstan to Dashanzi in China’s Xinjiang region was completed in 2005.
Work is also currently being completed on a 450 km Atyrau – Kenkiyak section, which would extend the pipeline even further west and has a planned transmission capacity of 6 MMt/a.