PetroChina, the nation’s biggest oil producer, said yesterday it has obtained the government’s final approval to build two pipelines to pump refined oil from northeastern and northwestern areas to central China, state media reported. The two pipelines will start at Lanzhou, in northwest China’s Gansu province, and Jinzhou, in northeast China’s Liaoning province, and converge in Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan. A further extension will reach Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province, south of Henan. The pipelines are scheduled for operation in 2007 or 2008 and will cost about US$1.5 billion.
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