Country China From Lanzhou Type Oil products Diameter 51 cm Commissioned 2002 | General direction North–south To Chongqing Length 1,250 km (780 mi) Owner PetroChina Passes throughs Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan | |
The Lanzhou–Chengdu–Chongqing Pipeline is a petroleum product pipeline in China. The pipeline is owned by PetroChina.
The 1,250-kilometre (777 mi) pipeline starts at the Lanzhou terminal and finish at the Chongqing terminal. It runs through Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces. Its diameter varies from 508 millimetres (20 in) to 457 millimetres (18 in) to 323.9 millimetres (12.75 in). The pipeline has capacity over 6 million tonnes of oil products per year. The pipeline cost around US$500 million.
After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake the pipeline was temporarily closed due to risk of flooding as the pipeline is located 60 kilometres (37 mi) downstream from Tangjiashan Lake.
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Lanzhou–Chengdu–Chongqing Pipeline Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA