Sinopec plans to transit 734,000mt of oil products to Southwest China's Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan through the Southwest Oil Product Pipeline in October, up by 2.6% from September, according to a company source.
The supply of gasoline will increase by 12.6% to 164,000mt probably because of less supply by truck, the source said, adding gasoil supply will be stable at 570,000mt.
The turnaround of a 1.2-mil-mt/yr jet hydrogenation unit at Maoming Petrochemical did not affect oil product production and supply, the source said.
However, gasoil supply by the pipeline may decline in November because of the maintenance on a 450,000-mt/yr gasoil hydrogenation unit at the refinery, the source also said.
Sinopec Southwest Oil Product Pipeline started construction on Sep 19, 2003 and came onto stream by the end of 2005. It starts from Maoming of Guangdong Province and ends in Kunming of Yunnan Province, passing through 37 cities and towns within Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan. Stretching out 1,691km in its full length and linking up 19 stations, it is the largest-scaled and longest oil products pipeline in the country by far.
