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PIPELINE SCHEDULED IN TARIM BASIN

March 28, 1994

China's big Tarim basin oil export pipeline project has taken a major step forward. China National Petroleum Corp's Northwest Petroleum Pipeline Construction Headquarters unit and China National Machinery Import & Export Corp. signed a contract with Snamprogetti of Italy for joint design of the first leg of what eventually win be a 3,300 km pipeline to carry crude oil from remote Tarim oil fields to markets in eastern China.

China's big Tarim basin oil export pipeline project has taken a major step forward.

China National Petroleum Corp's Northwest Petroleum Pipeline Construction Headquarters unit and China National Machinery Import & Export Corp. signed a contract with Snamprogetti of Italy for joint design of the first leg of what eventually win be a 3,300 km pipeline to carry crude oil from remote Tarim oil fields to markets in eastern China.

Scope of the initial work covers basic and detailed engineering of a 500 km, 26 in. pipeline from Korla to Shanshan, primary and intermediate pump stations, and the terminus at Shanshan.