BEIJING, May 12: China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the parent of PetroChina , said on Thursday that it will start laying the China section of a second crude oil pipeline to Russia in June. The pipeline section, running through the northernmost province Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at a length 941.8 km (585 miles), is expected to be completed by October 2017, the company’s newspaper said. The newly-constructed pipeline, together with another running from Mohe to Daqing, is expected to have a combined capacity of 30 million tonnes a year, the newspaper said. (AGENCIES)
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