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| China-Kazakhstan Pipeline Unthreatened by Oil Explosion |
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An oil tank explosion that killed 12 people on Saturday in northwest Sheng Shaokun, deputy head of the regional safety production supervision administration, ruled out the possibility of a second explosion in the tank being built in Dushanzi, a district of Karamay City, about 260 kilometers from He added that no environmental pollution would result from the blast since the tank contained no oil. The explosion happened at around 7:20 PM Friday when 24 workers were carrying out antiseptic treatment on the tank, belonging to Dushanzi Petrochemical Company, a branch of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The 100,000-cubic-meter tank is designed to store crude oil piped into The scale of the pipeline is immense, its transnational section measuring 962.2 kilometers, joining a The pipeline, which can carry 10 million tons of crude oil per year, starts at Atasu in western The Sino-Kazakhstan pipeline was jointly built by China National Petroleum Corporation, Initial investigations show that Saturday's blast might have been caused by the volatility of organic substances in the oil paint used for the tank's antiseptic treatment, said Sheng. Apart from the 12 people killed, 12 others were injured, but six of them have been discharged from hospital, Sheng said. An investigation into the causes of the accident is still underway. (Xinhua News Agency October 30, 2006) |
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