subject: Myanmar Oil And Gas Pipeline In China Started In Paragraph 22 Million Tons In Oil [print this page] September 10, 2010 , China-Burma oil pipeline section in China started in Kunming, Yunnan , which is one of the four strategic access oil and gas imports . Sinopec Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development Advisory Committee, Professor Zhang Kang , deputy director of the South have told reporters that China-Burma oil and gas pipeline construction , indicates that China imported crude oil transport routes in the Middle East , Africa and Southeast Asia routes route has a new channel , to threaten our energy security " Malacca dilemma " get cracking , crude oil pipeline through Burma into China is also a crude southwest of the most convenient access .
22 million tons in oil
Reporter learned from the oil group , China and Myanmar oil pipeline design capacity is 2200 tons / year , China-Burma gas pipeline capacity on gas transport 12 billion cubic meters / year. Natural gas pipeline in Myanmar, 793 km long section , crude oil pipeline in Myanmar, 771 km long section . Two pipelines are starting to Myanmar kyaukpyu city into China from Yunnan Ruili .
China-Burma oil and gas pipeline projects within the entry section , the pipeline to reach through Guizhou, Chongqing, Guizhou to Guangxi by the gas pipeline . Domestic natural gas pipelines segment length 1727 km , 1631 km long oil pipeline route .
China-Burma oil and gas pipeline projects within the section started , it is expected put into operation in 2013 . Oil and gas pipelines in Burma within the section of commencing work, 10 million tons refinery project in Yunnan Province in Kunming foundation . This is supporting the construction of China-Burma oil pipeline downstream of the project , the entire project is scheduled to be completed in 2013 pay .
To avoid the Strait of Malacca
For China, the Straits of Malacca is the lifeline of China's offshore oil . China's imports of crude oil transport routes in the Middle East , Africa and Southeast Asia routes must be routes through the Malacca Strait , over 80% of imported crude oil depended on the choke full of variables , the formation of China's oil security a potential bottleneck . A Chinese energy expert has used " vulnerable "to describe the Straits of Malacca . That the present Straits of Malacca in Malaysia, Singapore, within the control of the Indian forces are also within reach of the Strait . Coupled with the U.S. global strategy is to control one of the 16 throat waterway that once the U.S. forces to intervene in any country has no alternative . It is no exaggeration to say that who controls the Strait of Malacca, one who will live in China's stranglehold on the energy channel .
CNPC said the rise in our dependence on foreign oil supplies very fast pace , China-Burma oil and gas pipeline construction to avoid the Malacca Strait, as an important measure of national energy access , completion of the pipeline could further stabilize the region Oil supply , but also to promote the western region development strategy for the implementation of key projects.
Burma gas pipeline project is one of the four strategic access oil and gas imports . In addition to oil and gas pipelines between China and Burma , the other strategic channels including Central Asian natural gas pipeline and oil pipeline between China and Russia , and China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline .
PetroChina 2009 net imports of 218.885 million tons , apparent consumption of 408.375 million tons of oil , which reached 52.5% of crude oil import dependence .
