[History of the Haichuan Pipeline] The first imported crude oil pipeline after the founding of the People's Republic of China
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my country’s first imported crude oil pipeline is the Kazakhstan-China Crude Oil Pipeline. The first phase of the pipeline project starts from the first station in Atasu, Kazakhstan, and ends at the final station in Alashankou, Xinjiang, my country. The pipeline is 965.1 kilometers long, has a pipe diameter of 813 mm, a design pressure of 6.3MPa, and a design capacity of 10 million tons per year. It started commercial operation on July 20, 2006. The second phase of the pipeline project was completed and put into operation on December 13, 2013, and the oil transportation capacity has been increased to 20 million tons/year. By the end of 2013, the Kazakhstan-China crude oil pipeline had transported a total of 63.6 million tons of oil to China.
The designed oil transportation capacity is 20 million tons/year, but the actual capacity has never been reached, only 12 to 14 million tons/year.
What is the reason for not reaching the designed production capacity? ? Dushanzi cannot consume so many pipelines. Is there a problem with the transportation capacity? Or is it that the origin of raw materials cannot provide so many? ?
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The first and second phases both have a capacity of 10 million tons.
The main reason is that Kazakhstan lacks production capacity and has reserves that cannot be extracted. Originally, three 10-million-ton refining and chemical integration projects were planned along the China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline in Dushanzi, Lanzhou and Chongqing. Now only Dushanzi has reached the scale, Lanzhou only has a partial scale, and Chongqing has completely stopped.
It turned out to be a problem with the production capacity of the oil field. Maybe they don’t want others to cooperate in mining.
Crude oil reserves are huge, but there is no investment (perhaps due to policy protection) or a serious lack of supporting capabilities, making it difficult to use them. There is also a gas pipeline along the crude oil pipeline. I wonder if it has reached the design scale?
PetroChina should find a new growth point. The Belt and Road Initiative has a lot of room for expansion in Central Asia, but it is not easy either.