Sino-Burma pipelines

Sino-Myanmar crude oil pipeline
Location
Country	Myanmar, China
General direction	south–north
From	Kyaukphyu
Passes through	Mandalay, Lashio, Muse, Ruili
To	Kunming
Runs alongside	Sino–Myanmar natural gas pipeline
General information
Type	oil
Partners	China National Petroleum Corporation Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise
Technical information
Length	771 km (479 mi)
Maximum discharge	240 thousand barrels per day (38×10^3 m3/d)

Sino-Myanmar natural gas pipeline
Location
Country	Myanmar, China
General direction	south–north
From	Kyaukphyu
Passes through	Mandalay, Lashio, Muse, Ruili, Kunming
To	Guizhou and Guangxi
Runs alongside	Sino–Myanmar crude oil pipeline
General information
Type	natural gas
Partners	China National Petroleum Corporation Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise
Technical information
Length	2,806 km (1,744 mi)
Maximum discharge	12 billion cubic meters per year

Sino-Myanmar pipelines refers to planned oil and natural gas pipelines linking Myanmar's deep-water port of Kyaukphyu (Sittwe) in the Bay of Bengal with Kunming in Yunnan province of China.

Talks between China and Myanmar on the feasibility of the project began in 2004. In December 2005, PetroChina signed a deal with Myanmar's Government to purchase natural gas over a 30 year period. Based on this agreement, the parent company of PetroChina, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), signed on 25 December 2008 a contract with the Daewoo International-led consortium to purchase natural gas from the Shwe gas field in A-1 offshore block.

The plan to build the oil and gas pipelines was approved by China's National Development and Reform Commission in April 2007. In November 2008, China and Myanmar agreed to build a US$1.5 billion oil pipeline and US$1.04 billion natural gas pipeline. In March 2009, China and Myanmar signed an agreement to build a natural gas pipeline, and in June 2009 an agreement to build a crude oil pipeline. The inauguration ceremony marking the start of construction was held on 31 October 2009 on Maday Island.

The Myanmar section of the gas pipeline was completed on 12 June 2013 and gas started to flow to China on 21 October 2013. The oil pipeline was completed in Aug, 2014.

The oil and natural gas pipelines run in parallel and start near Kyaukphyu, run through Mandalay, Lashio, and Muse in Myanmar before entering China at the border city of Ruili in Yunnan province. The oil pipeline, which eventually terminates in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, is 771 kilometres (479 mi) long. The natural gas pipeline will extend further from Kunming to Guizhou and Guangxi in China, running a total of 2,806 kilometres (1,700 mi).

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