West-East Oil Transmitting Pipeline to Be Constructed
With the discovery and development of the huge  oil and gas
  field  in  the Tarim Basin,  China  will   construct    a
long- distance  oil  transmitting pipeline to  ensure  the
raw  material  supply    to    petrochemical    and    oil
refining enterprises in central and southwest regions.
The pipeline will start from Kular of Tarim Oil Base,   run
eastward  through  Shanshan  Oil  Base  of  Xinjiang  Tuha
Oilfield, Dunhuang Oil Base of  Qinghai Oilfield and Gansu
Corridor, reach Gansu Lanzhou and then divide  into    two
pipelines. The first pipeline will continue to go eastward
and reach Henan Luoyang Petrochemical General Plant,   and
the  second  pipeline  will  turn south and reach  Sichuan
Pengzhou Refinery which is now  under  construction.   The
total length will be 4 200 km  and  the  total  investment
will  be  more than 20 billion yuan.   The  first  section
from  Kular  to  Shanshan  with  a length of  482  km  was
already completed and put into use in mid- July  last year.
The pipeline can link the internal  oilfield  pipelines  in
the  Tarim  Basin, the Zenger Basin, the  Tuha  Basin  and
the Yanqi Basin of Xinjiang  and    the  Qaidam  Basin  of
Qinghai into a main artery transmitting oil from  west  to
east. The crude oil produced in the    northwest    region
can  therefore  be transmitted smoothly to  the  east  and
the oil prospecting  and  development in the  Tarim  Basin
can be accelerated.