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Crude oil piped from Myanmar to China hits 8.9 mln tones
KUNMING, June 9, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – The China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline
has carried a total of 8.9 million tonnes of crude oil into China after one
year of operation, according to its operator in southwest China’s Yunnan
Province.
Meanwhile, China has imported more than 18 billion cubic meters of natural
gas through a second pipeline linking the two countries since 2013, the
Dehong branch of PetroChina Southwest Pipeline Company said Friday.
According to customs of the provincial capital Kunming, the value of oil
and gas imported from the pipelines accounted for 23.4 percent of Yunnan’s
total imports in 2017.
Crude oil started entering China via the 1,420-km China-Myanmar crude oil
pipeline last June and the China-Myanmar natural gas pipeline was put into
operation in July 2013.
The China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project is a state-operated
collaboration between China, Myanmar, and international commercial partners
which was built to help ensure the energy security of the world’s second-
largest economy.
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