PetroChina restarts pipeline after quake precaution

13 May 2008 11:34  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS News)--Petrochemicals producer and refiner PetroChina has restarted a major 5m tonne/year oil pipeline in China which had been closed due to Monday’s earthquake, a company source said on Tuesday.

 

The company refused to comment on whether the line - which runs through the country’s southwest, including Sichuan province where up to 10,000 people have died in the disaster - was damaged by the 7.8-magnitude quake.

 

Chemicals producers have suffered severe disruption with numerous plants being closed for safety reasons and road and rail transport hit by the adverse effects of the quake, with PetroChina reporting increasingly tight polymer supply.  

 

Judith Wang of CBI contributed to this article.

 

By: Brian Myung
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