China receives first oil from Myanmar pipeline (4)

A staff member of inspection and quarantine bureau tests sample at the Ruili station of the China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline in Ruili, southwest China's Yunnan Province, May 19, 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. (Xinhua/Yao Bing)