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China speeds up building west-east oil artery
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-02 00:50 China is accelerating the construction of a
long-distance oil artery to deliver oil and gas resources in western China to
energy-starved eastern areas.
The project includes a crude oil pipeline between Shanshan in northwest
China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Lanzhou in Gansu Province, a
finished-oil pipeline connecting Urumqi with Lanzhou, and the Kazakhstan-China
oil pipeline, which links Atasu in Kazakhstan with Alataw Pass in Xinjiang.
At a symposium held in Urumqi Tuesday, Wang Yilin, deputy general manager of
the China Oil and Gas Group Co., said construction of the Kazakhstan-China
pipeline, with a length of 1,200 km, is scheduled to start in August this year
and be completedby the end of 2005.
The 1,500-km Shanshan-Lanzhou pipeline has a designed annual oil transmission
capacity of 10 million tons.
The Urumqi-Lanzhou pipeline, with a total length of 1,800 km, is to transport
8 million to 10 million tons of oil annually. Preparation on the pipeline is
underway and the pipeline will be laid in the latter half of this year. It will
be finished by 2006.
The oil project will link the oil pipelines in Xinjiang and Gansu into a
whole network, which is connected to petrol-chemical enterprises in eastern and
southwestern China.
Xinjiang has an estimated oil reserve of 20.9 billion tons, accounting for a
quarter of the national total. By the end of 2003,2.7 billion of oil resources
had been verified. The region produced 21.4 million tons of oil last year. Its
output will climbto 35 million tons by 2010.
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