Can you briefly introduce the route of the China Kazakhstan oil pipeline?

Alashankou (Xinjiang), 2006 (Xinhua) -- The China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline has officially delivered oil to China. At around midnight Beijing time, ** began to arrive at the Alashankou metrology station in Xinjiang, China. This is the first time that China has realized the import of goods from abroad by pipeline**.

Overview: The China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline will start from the Caspian port city of Atyrau in western Kazakhstan in the west, pass through the Aktobe oil area purchased by PetroChina in Kazakhstan, cross the whole territory of Kazakhstan to Alashankou on the Sino-Kazakh border, and then from Alashankou to Dushanzi in Xinjiang, China, with a total length of 3,088 kilometers, and the project will be completed in three phases. Among them, 2,818 kilometers are in Kazakhstan and 270 kilometers are in China.

The total cost of the pipeline is estimated to be US$3 billion, and its initial design capacity is 20 million tons of oil per year.

Westward expansion of China-Kazakhstan oil pipelines: "The two sides will assist their respective economic entities in the implementation of the second phase of the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline, the China-Kazakhstan natural gas pipeline project, the petrochemical complex, and other projects, as well as cooperation in the field of oil and gas deep processing," the China-Kazakhstan Joint Communiqué signed on August 18 last year.

The China-Kazakhstan pipeline mentioned in the communiqué is the "paving stone" to the Caspian Oil. Last year, the first cross-border oil pipeline between China and Kazakhstan was built, linking PetroChina's oil fields in central Kazakhstan with China's Xinjiang region. The second phase of the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline is scheduled to be completed in 2011, with an annual oil transportation capacity of 20 million tons.

Known as the "second Persian Gulf", the Caspian Sea has begun to beckon to China, a major oil consumer, and the path for Caspian oil to enter China is expected to be opened.

In 1997, China and Kazakhstan jointly proposed a plan to build a China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline. At that time, China and Kazakhstan agreed to jointly build an oil pipeline with a total length of more than 3,000 kilometers from Atyrau on the coast of Kazakhstan in the west to Alashankou in Xinjiang, China, with a total investment of 2.5 billion to 3 billion US dollars.

The entire pipeline is divided into three sections: the first section runs from Atyrau to Kenkiyak; the second section from Kenkiyak to Atasu; The third section runs from Atasu in Kazakhstan to Alashankou in Xinjiang, China.

The Caspian Sea coast is rich in oil resources and has stable oil**;

China's oil demand is increasing day by day, and the resources are highly complementary;

expand the diversification of China's oil import channels;

The terrain along the pipeline is relatively flat, and the construction of the project is easy;

The area is adjacent to each other, and the pipeline transportation safety is good.

Kazakhstan has abundant oil and gas resources, but the domestic demand is low, and China's oil and gas resources are relatively scarce, and the domestic demand is large, and the relationship between supply and demand is large.

The Caspian Sea coast is rich in oil resources and has stable oil**; China's oil demand is increasing day by day; The terrain along the pipeline is flat, and the construction is easy.

The temperate continental climate has a large temperature difference, and the Gobi Desert needs to cross the mountains, which is difficult to construct.

Sparsely populated, expensive to build, and politically unstable.

The desert area is sparsely populated, the climate is harsh, and most of them are high mountains and Gobi.

It stretches from the Caspian port city of Atyrau in western Kazakhstan in the west to Dushanzi in the east