Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, August 06, 2003
China to Construct its Longest Processed Oil Pipeline
Construction of China's longest oil pipeline from Maoming City, south China's Guangdong Province, to Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, will begin next September.
Construction of China's longest oil pipeline from Maoming City, south China's Guangdong Province, to Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, will begin next September.
SinoPec, the project investor and China's largest refining company, said the project had been approved by the state and preliminary designs were complete.
The 1,691-km pipeline will pass through south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guizhou Province.
A total of 19 pumping stations will be installed on the pipeline, construction of which will cost 3.52 billion yuan (about424 million US dollars).
The pipeline project will be completed at the end of 2004 and put into use in March 2005.
By then, 10 million tons of processed oil will be piped each year from Guangdong Province to Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan.