缅甸和印度考虑铺设跨境石油管道

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社3月23日吉隆坡报道，缅甸政府的一名官员周五在吉隆坡表示，印度日前建议铺设一条跨境石油管道，从印度东海岸向缅甸输送石油产品，主要是柴油。

缅甸电力和能源部油气规划局总经理Zaw Aung说：“我们已经把油气管道与中国和泰国连接，而我们时下正在考虑与印度和孟加拉国连接石油管道。我们在考虑分享石油产品。”

他对路透社记者说，缅甸和印度已组成一个工作组来研究诸如安全、土地和石油储存那样的问题。

缅甸目前每天主要从新加坡进口大约10万桶柴油和汽油，而缅甸国内只日产1.2万桶石油。

他说，缅甸已邀请投资者建造炼油厂，但高土地费用是需要克服的许多主要问题中的一个问题。

他说，缅甸还与中国和孟加拉国举行了首轮谈判，讨论建造一条跨境输电网来缓解电力短缺。

李峻 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Myanmar, India Mull Building Cross-Border Oil Pipeline

India has proposed to build a pipeline from the country's east coast to deliver oil products, mainly diesel, to Myanmar, a Myanmar government official said on Friday.

"We have already connected (oil and gas) pipelines to China and Thailand, and we considered connecting (oil) pipelines to India as well as Bangladesh. This is under consideration to share petroleum products," Zaw Aung, director general of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy's oil and gas planning department, said at the OTC Asia conference.

A working group has been formed by Myanmar and India to look at issues such as security, land and oil storage, he told Reuters.

Myanmar currently imports about 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of diesel and gasoline mainly from Singapore, Zaw Aung said, and produces only 12,000 bpd of oil locally.

The country has invited investors to build refineries but high land cost is one of the main issues to overcome, he said.

The country has also held its first round of talks with China and Bangladesh to discuss building an electricity transmission grid across borders to ease power shortages, Zaw Aung said.