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China’s CPP advances pipeline work in

Bangladesh, completes project in Pakistan

PIPELINES & CHINA Petroleum Pipeline Engineering for the installation of a single point mooring
TRANSPORT Company (CPP) has recently reported pro- system with 220-km double pipelines, including
gress with work on two pipeline projects in the construction of a 146-km offshore pipeline
Southern Asia. and a 74-km onshore pipeline to carry up to 9mn
CPP, a subsidiary of China National Petro- tonnes per year (tpy) from offshore to a refinery
leum Corp. (CNPC), has completed laying 100 at Chittagong. Once the project is in operation,
km of subsea pipeline work using an innovative it will enable tankers over 100,000 DWT that
trencher that will enable the country to unload cannot dock in Chittagong to unload at ports The Pakistani
oil shipments. In Pakistan, the Chinese com- elsewhere in the country.
pany finished the MFM MoGas project, which The project is reported by Chinese media branch of CPP
includes pipelines and storage facilities. to be a part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
A multi-functional modular seabed trencher (BRI). announced last
developed by CPP has been used to dig a trench The Pakistani branch of CPP announced last
11 metres deep to lay pipeline so as to not inter- week that it had completed a total of nine pro- week that it had
fere with shipping in shallow waterways near jects in the country since 2017, the latest being completed a total
Bangladesh’s main seaport of Chittagong. “The the Mahmood Kot-Faisalabad-Machike (MFM)
installation of the marine pipeline is Bangla- Pipeline Phase II reconstruction and expansion of nine projects
desh’s first marine pipeline project; [it] needs project, which include the TS-3 and TS-4 sta-
to complete six directional drillings and reach a tions located in Faisalabad and Sheikhupura. in the country
buried depth of 11 metres to avoid the commer- TS-3 includes a single gasoline storage tank
cial and naval waterways, making the unprece- with a 15,000 cubic metre capacity, and a fire since 2017.
dented difficulty in the history of world marine water-storage tank, while TS-4 includes two
engineering,” CPP said, according to China’s gasoline storage tanks each with a 15,000 cubic
Global Times news agency. metre capacity, and a fire water-storage tank.
Subsea trenches are usually 1.5-3.0 metres Both sites include related supporting facilities,
deep. Digging a trench 5 metres deep is consid- according to Pakistani PR firm Gwadar Pro.
ered difficult. The project is part of the 2,000-km pipeline
In December 2016, Bangladesh awarded fuel transportation system owned and operated
CPP with an engineering, procurement, con- by Pak-Arab Refinery Co. (PARCO). The system
struction and commissioning (EPCC) contract runs between Karachi and Lahore.™

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