Alashankou–Dushanzi Oil Pipeline
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Alashankou–Dushanzi Oil Pipeline is an oil pipeline in China.[1]
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Location
The pipeline originates at Alashankou and terminates at the Dushanzi Refinery, China.
Project Details
- Operator: CNPC[1]
- Current capacity: 200,000 barrels per day
- Length: 246 kilometers
- Status: Operating
- Start Year: 2006
Background
The Alashankou–Dushanzi Crude Oil Pipeline is a 246 kilometer long pipeline connecting the Kazakhstan–China oil pipeline with Dushanzi District in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The pipeline was constructed and operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).[2][3]
The capacity of pipeline is 200,000 barrels per day, and it supplies mainly the Dushanzi refinery in China. The pipeline became operational in 2005 and the first oil through the pipeline reached the refinery in 2006.[4]
Kazakhstan-China Pipeline connection
The Alashankou–Dushanzi Crude Oil Pipeline is connected to the Kazakhstan-China Pipeline, a 1,384-mile-long pipeline allowing oil import from Central Asia to China. is supplied from the Aktobe region's fields and from the Kumkol field. In the future, the main supply source will be Kashagan field. The pipeline is used also for the transportation of oil from Russia's western Siberia by connection with the Omsk (Russia)–Pavlodar (Kasakhstan)–Shymkent–Türkmenabat (Turkmenistan) pipeline in Atasu oil terminal.[5] Oil is transported through this pipeline by Russian companies TNK-BP and Gazprom Neft.[6]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alashankou–Dushanzi Oil Pipeline, Wikipedia, accessed September 2017
- ↑ Template:Cite paper
- ↑ "Pipeline carries Kazakh oil to China", China Daily (2006-07-30). Retrieved on 2009-01-25.
- ↑ Major events 2006. China National Petroleum Corporation. Retrieved on 2009-01-25.
- ↑ Alexander Sukhanov (2005-02-09). "Caspian oil exports heading east", Asian Times. Retrieved on 2008-03-15.
- ↑ "Gazprom Neft asks to send more oil to China", Reuters (2008-03-12). Retrieved on 2008-03-15.
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External resources
External articles
Wikipedia also has a description of the Alashankou–Dushanzi Crude Oil Pipeline as part of its article on the Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline (Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License].
