According to the Xinhua News Agency, Kunming Power, at the first meeting of the 11th People's Congress of Yunnan Province, which was recently opened, the Yunnan Provincial Government made it clear that it would establish an oil refining and chemical base. Qin Guangrong, governor of Yunnan Province, stated in his "Government Work Report" that the strategic cooperation with China National Petroleum Corporation entered the implementation stage.
Since 2007, the focus of PetroChina's refining and chemical projects and pipelines in Chongqing or Yunnan has become the focus of much media attention. The construction of an oil refining and chemical base in Yunnan can greatly reduce the distance of crude oil transportation in China, significantly reduce transportation costs, and can radiate western provinces such as Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou and Guangxi.
This time, Yunnan Province included the establishment of an oil refining and chemical base in 20 major construction projects in Yunnan Province in 2008, and proposed to implement a cooperation agreement with PetroChina, and cooperated with the related work of project construction to strive for construction and deployment. Downstream product development and utilization of the preparatory work.
The report of the Yunnan Provincial Development and Reform Commission at this meeting stated that it will strive to start the construction of the first batch of major projects including 10 million tons of petroleum refining, and cooperate with the state in the preparation of Sino-Myanmar oil pipelines and refining and natural gas pipeline projects. The preparatory work will advance the construction of refined oil pipelines and petroleum reserves in Yunnan Province.
Yunnan Province does not produce a drop of oil. It is a province with a high degree of external dependence on oil use. Currently, it mainly depends on oil refineries in South China and Northwest China to provide refined oil. Due to the long transportation distance and high cost, Yunnan is at the end of the national oil supply, and in the four major bottlenecks that restrict the development of Yunnan, “coal power, oil and oil transportationâ€, once the oil supply problems occur, it will be transmitted to coal, electricity and transportation. .