BTW Russia has one gas pipeline from Siberia going to Northern China. There are “forever” plans to build another pipeline. I know of no construction being done on it.
It seems to me that most Russ to China gas exports are done via LNG ships. Russia has two major LNG export terminals. One is on Sakhalin Island. China has 20 LNG intake terminals. One is in Guangdong where the manufacturing is done. This is where China really needs Russian natural gas to be.
Who pays to compress and chill the LNG? The Russians do and they don’t mind. They have natural gas coming out their ears. Natural gas to use to compress/chill the ship born LNG. At the Chinese end no energy needs to be expended. They just open up the valves to let the LNG flow out.
The second line to China, power of siberia 2, begins construction in 2024.
https://nitter.net/spectatorindex/status/1548827623278919680#m
“It seems to me that most Russ to China gas exports are done via LNG ships.”
Not according to the most recent statistics I could find.
Russia exported 12.145 million mt of natural gas, comprising 4.61 million mt of LNG and 7.54 million mt of pipeline gas in 2021, according to China’s General Administration of Customs. The total volume rose 51% year on year, with LNG imports falling 9.8%, while pipeline gas imports rose 154%