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CHINA'S XINJIANG-LANZHOU OIL
PIPELINE FINISHED
Tuesday October 11, 2005, 3:59 pm
LANZHOU, Oct 11 Asia Pulse - The Xinjiang-Lanzhou oil
pipeline has in the main been completed, according to
an announcement by the China Petroleum and Natural Gas
Pipeline Bureau that undertook the project.
The project is a dual pipeline, one for crude oil and
the other for oil product. It was undertaken by the
EPC model.
The pipeline starts in Urumqi, capital of Northwest
Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and runs
nearly 4,000 km to end in Lanzhou, capital of
Northwest Chinas Gansu Province, passing through 21
cities.
Built at a cost of 14.6 billion yuan (US$1.8 billion),
the project is designed to have an annual transmission
capacity of 20 million tons of crude oil and 10
million tons of finished oil.
This is the first digital pipeline, equipped with the
advanced SCADA system.
(XIC)
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