BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline has been running smoothly for 425 days, unloading 47 oil tankers of 10.98 million metric tons (tonnes) of crude oil as of July 17 since May 19, 2017, according to news release by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
The first phase of the China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline is designed to have a transportation capacity of 13 million tonnes annually.
The China-Myanmar pipeline transported fine quality crude from international market to refineries in Yunnan province, effectively filling the blank of refined oil production in Yunnan and driving the upgrading of the petrochemical industry in China’s southwest regions. (Edited by Niu Huizhe, niuhuizhe@xinhua.org)
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