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Crude oil port inaugurated in Myanmar's western state

Xinhua, January 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

A crude oil port in Made Island in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, jointly built by China and Myanmar, was put into service Friday.

The commissioning ceremony of Made Crude Oil Unloading Terminal and pre-commissioning of Southeast Asia Crude Oil Pipeline was attended by Myanmar Minister of Energy U Zay Yar Aung, Rakhine State Chief Minister U Maung Maung Ohn, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Yang Houlan and General Manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Liao Yongyuan.

Made Island Port is the starting point of China-Myanmar Crude Oil Pipeline.

The China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline (Myanmar section) was put into trial operation Wednesday after the project was announced basically completed through five years' efforts by the two sides, U Zay Yar Aung said at the ceremony Friday.

The crude oil pipeline, which is 771 kilometers in length, is designed to transmit 22 million tons of crude oil per year, he said.

As the crude oil transmission is both for China and local sharing, the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project will benefit Myanmar, creating job opportunities for residents and promoting socio-economic development, he said.

Liao Yongyuan, general manager of the CNPC, said the project will help promote bilateral cooperation in the energy sector and deep friendship between the two countries.

The China-Myanmar Crude Oil Pipeline (Myanmar section), which started construction in June 2010 and completed on May 2014, was jointly invested and built by the CNPC and Myanmar's state-run Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) with 50.9 percent and 49.1 percent share respectively.

The China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project, which comprises of a crude oil pipeline and a gas pipeline, is a state-operated project of China and Myanmar with the collaboration of international partners on commercial basis.

The China-Myanmar natural gas pipeline, co-invested and cooperated by four countries -- China, Myanmar, South Korea and India, and six parties, had been inaugurated on July 28, 2013 and put into operation. As of January 25, 2015, the pipeline had transmitted 3.92 billion cubic-meters gas to China, offloading 147 million cubic-meters gas for Myanmar, according to Chinese statistics. Endi