Second China-Russia Oil Pipeline in the Works

(Beijing) – China National Petroleum Corp., one of the country's largest gas and oil producers, has started developing a second pipeline to import 15 million metric tons of crude oil each year from Russia, official People's Daily reported on August 16.

The 940-kilometer pipeline connects Mohe, the northernmost Chinese county bordering Russia, and Daqing, the country's largest oil field by output in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. The project is due to be finished in January 2018 and it runs parallel to another US$ 25 billion pipeline linking the town of Skovorodino in Siberia to the world's biggest consumer of energy.