First 42,000 tonnes of oil pumped along Russia-China pipeline

BEIJING, January 2 (Itar-Tass) - The oil pipeline from Russia to China
pumped 42,000 tonnes of crude since the time of putting into operation
(last Saturday) the Russia-China pipeline, reported the Xinhua news agency
on Sunday.
The news agency noted that "oil comes to China in a working regime;
there are no problems with operation of the pipeline".
In compliance with the agreement, calculated for 20 years, China will
receive annually 15 million tonnes of crude through the pipeline.
The pipeline in the Chinese territory over 1,000 kilometres long runs
across the Heilujiang province and the autonomous area of Inner Mongolia
to the centre of Chinese oil processing - Daqing. The first pilot batch of
Russian oil with a volume of 250,000 came to the Chinese city of Mohe back
on November 2, 2010 and following a painstaking chemical examination was
dispatched to Daqing.
It was followed by the second pilot batch of 300,000 tonnes on
December 12. It takes a week to pump oil along the Chinese territory, the
agency's report says.
The oil pipeline from the city of Skovorodino in the Amur Region to
Daqing is a siding from the East Siberia-Pacific trunk pipeline. Each
country built its section on its own, with the border of the interstate
route running in the middle of the Amur River.
On the whole, the East Siberia-Pacific trunk pipeline is designed to
pump oil, produced in West and East Siberia, to the market of Asia-Pacific
countries.
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