The valve of the first station of the China-Kazakhstan oil pipe is switched on by Zhou Jiping (3rd left), Vice President of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC)and Uzakbai Karabalin (1st left), President of KazMunaiGaz, Kazakhstan's state oil and gas company at Atasu on Dec. 15. This marks the operation of the program's 962-kilometre first phase which will carry 10 million tons of crude oil a year from Atasu to Alashankou of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Plans are underway for a second phase, which is expected to pipe at least 20 million tons of oil from Kazakhstan to China.
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