West Crude Oil Pipeline Begins Operation Successfully

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Oil in the West Crude Oil Pipeline reached its end terminal at Lanzhou in Northwest China’s Gansu province smoothly on the morning of August 1, 2007, establishing that the West Crude Oil Pipeline was put into operation successfully. This is also another important milestone for the West Crude Oil Pipeline Project since the Product Oil Pipeline laid in the same ditch was put into operation in last September. China Petroleum West Pipeline Company, Limited (Xinjiang, China), a fully-owned subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (Beijing, China) was established for the construction and operation of the West Pipeline Project.

West Pipeline Project is a huge system comprised of two large diameter pipelines laid in the same ditch for the transportation of crude oil and refined products. West Pipeline Project is furnished with two start terminals, two end terminals and nine intermediate terminals, 50 valve stations and a total of 942,000 cubic meters of oil storage. Total investment of the West Pipeline Project is approximately $2 billion. Nearly 4,000 kilometers of pipeline will be built, including two trunk pipelines and seven branch pipelines (five of them are in operation). The trunk pipeline for crude oil begins in Shanshan County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and ends at Lanzhou, Gansu Province. Total length of the Crude Oil Pipeline is 1,546 kilometers and the design transportation capacity is 20 million metric tons a year. Total length of the Product Oil Pipeline is 1,842 kilometers and the design transportation capacity is 10 million metric tons a year (operational last September), which is used for the transportation of product oils from Kelamayi, Dushanzi, Urumuqi and Yumen oil refineries.

West Pipeline Project is the first long-distant pipeline built in the mode of E+P+C (engineering, procurement and construction) general contracting in China. Construction of West Pipeline Project was officially started in March 2005. Through more than one year of hard working from tens of thousands of workers in over 60 units, the product oil pipeline laid in the small ditch was put into operation successfully in September 2006. Today, the official operation of the crude oil pipeline marks that the West Pipeline Project is fully begins the operation period from the construction period.

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