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China starts building first oil reserve in Xinjiang: official
Beijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2009 China has started building the first strategic oil reserve in the far western Xinjiang region, a senior official said Friday, as part of the Asian giant's efforts to secure its energy supply. "We started building the oil reserve at Dushanzi in Xinjiang yesterday ... marking the start of the Phase-II oil reserve base," said Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, at a news conference. The official Xinhua news agency said that the 5.4-million-cubic-metre reserve would store crude produced in Kazakhstan and Russia and was expected to begin filling in October next year. It would account for 20 percent of the total storage capacity of China's Phase-II strategic reserve programme, the report said. Construction of an additional six power projects in Xinjiang also started Thursday, including three power plants, a power grid, a liquefied natural gas plant and a coal mine, Xinhua said. Total investment in the seven projects would exceed 23 billion yuan (3.4 billion dollars) and create 6,000 jobs, it added. China would "definitely" continue to expand its strategic oil reserves after the second phase was completed to meet the nation's long-term goal of building enough storage capacity for 90 days' use, Zhang told reporters. Phase-I strategic oil reserves in Zhenhai, Huangdao and Zhoushan in the east and Dalian in the northeast were filled earlier this year, with a total storage capacity of 16.4 million cubic metres, state media have said. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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