China National Petroleum Corp., the country’s biggest oil and gas producer, will start laying a second domestic oil pipeline in June to allow for increased Russian crude supplies to flow to China’s northeastern city of Daqing. The project between the Chinese border city of Mohe and Daqing runs parallel to an existing spur off of Russia’s East Siberia-Pacific Ocean crude pipeline. The 942 kilometer (585 mile) line has received construction approval from the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner, and is expected to be completed by October 2017, CNPC said in a statement on its website Thursday. The two pipelines will have a combined annual capacity of 30 million metric tons of crude. “The second oil pipeline will help integrate northeast China’s crude resources, and further improve the safety and reliability of China’s crude oil supplies,” CNPC said in the statement. The energy relationship between the […]