China-Myanmar Oil-Gas Pipeline Chinese Section Breaks Ground   

On September 10th, a ground-breaking ceremony was held for the Chinese section of the Sino-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline in An'ning, Yunnan province.
    China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China's largest oil and gas player, is in charge of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the Chinese section of the oil and gas pipeline, which is scheduled for completion in 2013.
    Construction on the Myanmar section of the dual pipeline began in June, 2010. (CCR2010 No. 12)
    The pipeline in Myanmar section has 793 kilometers long for gas and 771 kilometers long for crude oil, which is designed to enter China via Yunnan province's Ruili, before ending the province's capital Kunming. And then, the crude pipeline goes toward Chongqing through Guizhou province, with the trunk line length of 1 631 kilometers, and the gas pipeline arrives in Guangxi province via Guizhou province, with the key line length of 1 727 kilometers.
   The China-Myanmar Oil Pipeline is designed to have a transmitting capacity of 22 million tons of oil per year while the Gas Pipeline passing the two countries has a transmitting capacity of 12 billion cubic meters per year.
   In consequence, CNPC started construction of the 10 million t/a refining project at Anning Industrial Park, Yunnan province on the same day. The integrated refining complex is scheduled for intermediate handover by 2013.
   On September 9th, CNPC and the Yunnan provincial government inked a strategic cooperation agreement concerning construction of the oil and gas pipelines, refining and chemicals, urban gas and oil products marketing.
   Yunnan province has no refineries business up to now. The source of oil and gas from Myanmar and construction of refining project will promote the petrochemical development in the province and diversify its energy mix.