BEIJING: China's Sinopec said a section of the Sichuan-East China gas pipeline reopened on Saturday, 10 days after it was hit by a landslide and fire.
Crews worked around the clock since the accident to repair a stretch of the 2,200 km pipeline in a remote region of central Hubei province, according to the official WeChat account for China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec).
The shutdown caused natural gas supplies to industrial users in at least five provinces to be cut from 24 million to 7 million cubic metres per day, Sinopec said.
Remedial measures had included PetroChina increasing supplies to certain areas and Sinopec redirecting liquefied natural gas shipments.
The posting said that PetroChina was currently directing 7 million cubic metres of natural gas a day from one of its pipelines to replenish the Sichuan-East China gas pipeline.
Production at China's largest domestic gas field Puguang had been cut to 4 million cubic metres a day, a fourth of the production rate earlier in the year, following the accident. Saturday's posting did not mention current production levels at Puguang.
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