| Feb. 07 |
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| Construction commences of eastern section of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline. The pipeline starts at Horgos in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and ends at Hong Kong, crossing 14 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. | |  |
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| Apr. 16 |
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| CNPC and KazMunayGas reach an agreement with Central Asia Petroleum Ltd. to jointly purchase MangistauMunaiGas. |
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| May 18 |
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 | Construction commences of the Mohe-Daqing section of the Russia-China Crude Pipeline. The 1,030km pipeline, runing from Russia's Siberian city of Skovorodino to China's northeastern city of Daqing, has a designed annual deliverability of 15 million tons, and is expected to become operational by the end of 2010. |
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| Jun. 21 |
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PetroChina, a holding subsidiary of CNPC, completes the acquisition of 45.51% of the total issued share capital of Singapore Petroleum Company Limited, representing cash consideration of S$6.25 per share (excluding treasury shares), equivalent to approximately S$1.47 billion (approximately USD 1.02 billion). |
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| Jun. 28 |
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Dina-2 Gas Field in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region starts its trial operation. China's largest gas condensate field with a gas in place volume exceeding 100 billion cubic meters, Dina-2, together with Yaha, Kela-2 and Yingmaili gas fields, has boosted Tarim Oilfield's production capacity to over 20 billion cubic meters a year. |
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| Jun. 30 |
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The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)/BP alliance is awarded a tender in the first round of the international bidding for Iraq's oil & gas fields. The two bidders jointly win a service contract to develop Iraq's Rumaila oilfield. |
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| Jul. 01 |
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| The oilfield surface engineering and pipeline construction of a CNPC's upstream project commences in south Chad. | |  |
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| Sep. 21 |
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 | | An integrated 10Mt/a refining and 1Mt/a ethylene project at Dushanzi Petrochemical is put into operation, making Dushanzi the largest one of its kind in China. With a total investment of 30 billion, Dushanzi Petrochemical's project is composed of 9 sets of oil refining facilities and 12 sets of petrochemical facilities, which will mainly process high sulfur crude imported from Kazakhstan. |
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| Sept. 28 |
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| The brand of "CNPC Equipment" was officially issued, which is used by chosen products as a unified brand endorsement with their original registered trademarks. | |  |
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| Oct. 9 |
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| The first stage of Phase II of the Kazakhstan-China Crude Pipeline (Kenkiyak-Kumkol) begins to commercially transport oil. |
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| Nov. 16 |
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| A CNPC developed digital coal bed methane field demonstration project, the first one of its kind in China, becomes operational in Qinshui Basin, Shanxi Province. The demonstration project mainly includes a CBM processing facility with an annual capacity of 1 billion cubic meters and a CBM field capable of producing 600 million cubic meters a year. |
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| Dec. 11 |
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| At the second round of international bidding for Iraqi oil and gas fields, a consortium by CNPC, Total and Petronas wins the Halfya oil field service contract. |
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| Dec. 14 |
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 | | At the inauguration ceremony of the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline held in the gas plant on the right bank of the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan, Chinese President Hu Jintao, and the presidents of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan turn on the flow of natural gas to celebrate the completion of the project. |
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| Dec. 19 |
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| The output of Changqing Oilfield reaches to 30.06 million tons, becoming the second largest oil field in China. |
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| Dec. 29 |
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| CNPC's acquisition of certain oil sands assets from Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. (AOSC), receives the approval of the Canadian government. |
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| Dec. 31 |
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| The north Xinjiang cross-link line of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline goes on stream. Urumqi Municipality of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region enjoys the benefit of Central Asian gas, marking the commercial operation of the western segment of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline. |
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