China, Myanmar ink crude oil pipeline deal

China and Myanmar today signed an agreement on a crude oil pipeline between the two countries.
A 140,000-tonne crude oil tanker "Suezmax" began offloading crude oil at Made Island oil port in Myanmar's western Rakhine state today after the signing of a China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline transmission agreement in Beijing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Made Island oil port is the starting point of the China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline which is part of the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline project.
The crude oil pipeline starts in Made Island, extends as long as 771 kms and ends in China's Yunnan Province.

The pipeline passes through Myanmar's Rakhine state, Magway and Mandalay regions and Shan state.
Built since June 2010, the oil pipeline has a designed transmission capacity of 22 million tons per year.
Under the provisions of agreement, Myanmar can also be provided with two million tonnes of crude oil through the pipeline annually.