China has announced it will build oil and gas pipelines through Myanmar (Burma) in September to shorten the journey time for crude imports from the Middle East and Africa.
The construction is likely to be undertaken by China’s largest oil and gas producer CNPC or PetroChina but it is not clear who will build the domestic section of the pipeline, the China Securities Journal reported.
The pipelines are expected to help China cut the journey made by crude cargoes, which travel through the congested Malacca Strait.
The gas line, with a transportation capacity of 12 billion cubic metres a year, is expected to carry natural gas to Kunming, the capital of south-western China’s Yunnan province, which borders Myanmar, in 2012, according to the journal.
