China receives first oil from Myanmar pipeline
Source: www.chinamining.org Citation: Xinhua Date: May 22, 2017
The first crude oil from Myanmar has reached China via the China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) announced on Friday.
The oil reached Ruili, a city of Yunnan Province bordering Myanmar, at 4 p.m., according to the CNPC.
It will continue to flow through the pipe at a speed of about 50 kilometers per day for 650 km before reaching the city of Anning where the CNPC`s Yunnan petrochemical branch is located.
The branch has a designed processing capacity of 13 million tons per year.
The 1,420-km long cross-border pipeline is a part of the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project.
The project, which comprises a crude oil pipeline and a gas pipeline, is a state-operated collaboration between China, Myanmar and international commercial partners.
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