Sino-Myanmar crude oil pipeline enters trial operation
Source: www.chinamining.org Citation: Xinhua Date: January 29, 2015
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| Myanmar Vice President U Nyan Tun (2nd, L), Myanmar Energy Minister U Zay Ya Aung(L), General Manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Liao Yongyuan (R) and Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Yang Houlan (2nd, R) attend the soft opening ceremony of commissioning of Ma-De crude oil unloading terminal and pre-commissioning of South-East Asia crude oil pipeline in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 28, 2015. (Xinhua/U Aung) |
China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline ( Myanmar section) was put into trial operation Wednesday after the project was announced basically completed through five years` efforts by the two sides.
Myanmar Vice President U Nyan Tun, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Yang Houlan, Myanmar Energy Minister U Zay Ya Aung and General Manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Liao Yongyuan jointly inaugurated the opening ceremony in Yangon.
Made Island Port, the starting point of China-Myanmar Crude Oil Pipeline, where the first large oil tanker of 300,000 tons` capacity has been in place, will be ceremonially opened on Friday.
The China-Myanmar Crude Oil Pipeline (Myanmar section), which was started in June 2010 and completed on May 30. 2014, was jointly invested and built by the CNPC and Myanmar`s state-run Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) with 50.9 percent and 49.1 percent share respectively.
The pipeline extends as 771 km with designed transmission capacity of 22 million tons per year.
The Made Island lies southeast of Kyaukphyu town in Myanmar`s Rakhine state with some main projects being implemented including 300,000-ton crude oil wharf, working vessel wharf, 650,000 cubic- meter water tank, 38 km port channel and 1.2 million cubic-meter crude oil reserver.
The China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project, which comprises of a crude oil pipeline and a gas pipeline, is a state-operated project of China and Myanmar with the collaboration of international partners on commercial basis.
The China-Myanmar natural gas pipeline, co-invested and cooperated by four countries -- China, Myanmar, South Korea and India, and six parties, had been inaugurated on July 28, 2013 and put into operation. As of January 25, 2015 at 6 p.m. local time, the pipeline had transmitted 3.92 billion cubic-meters gas to China, offloading 147 million cubic-meters gas for Myanmar.
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