On August 1, Myanmar officially commenced construction of the main line of the Myanmar section of the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipeline Project, thus launching the construction of the project in question.
The pipeline project will connect Kyaukpyu in Myanmar to the city of Ruili in China, with a total length of 1,631 kilometers of oil pipeline and 1,727 kilometers of gas pipeline. The planned lengths of the oil and gas lines across Myanmar are 771 kilometers and 793 kilometers respectively.
The whole project is expected to come on stream in June 2013.