Baker Institute China Oil Map Updates

2020 Q1, released March 11, 2020

• Crude oil pipelines: 98 pipelines with a total length of 25,430 km and total throughput capacity of 23 million bpd (MBD);
• Refined product pipelines: 87 pipelines with a total network length of 27,945 km and a total throughput capacity of 7.7 MBD;
• Oil refineries: 208 facilities with 22.3 MBD of processing capacity;
• Oil storage facilities: 287 facilities with approximately 1.06 billion barrels of total storage capacity (crude oil: 74 facilities with 706.1 million barrels of capacity; refined products: 213 facilities with 357 million barrels of capacity); and
• Oil Ports: 59 docking facilities for oil tankers with a total throughput capacity of 15.3 MBD.
   

Table 1: China Oil Map Data Coverage Compared to Public Estimates

Sources: National Development and Reform Commission of China, http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/zcfb/zcfbtz/201701/W020170119333354977981.pdf;
Ruining Hou, January 16, 2019, https://www.jiemian.com/article/2798250.html;
Shivani Singh and Muyu Xu, Jan 16, 2020, Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-output-oil/chinas-2019-and-december-crude-oil-runs-hit-record-highs-idUSKBN1ZG0AS;
Muyu Xu, Shu Zhang, and Devika Krishna Kumar, Feb 13, 2020, Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-oil-storage/stranded-tankers-full-storage-tanks-coronavirus-leads-to-crude-glut-in-china-idUSKBN2072NR.

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2019 Q4, released December 9, 2019

China Oil Map is updated with new attribute information within individual facilities, but the statistic summary remains unchanged from the Q3 version.

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2019 Q3, released September 11, 2019

• Crude oil pipelines: 98 pipelines with a total length of 25,430 km and total throughput capacity of 20.01 million bpd (MBD);
• Refined product pipelines: 80 pipelines with a total network length of 27,337 km and a total throughput capacity of 6.4 MBD;
• Oil refineries: 205 facilities with 22.3 MBD of processing capacity;
• Oil storage facilities: 285 facilities with approximately 1.06 billion barrels of total storage capacity (crude oil: 73 facilities with 706.1 million barrels of capacity; refined products: 211 facilities with 355.4 million barrels of capacity); and
• Oil Ports: 59 docking facilities for oil tankers with a total throughput capacity of 15.3 MBD.
   

Table 1: China Oil Map Data Coverage Compared to Public Estimates

Sources: National Development and Reform Commission of China, http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/zcfb/zcfbtz/201701/W020170119333354977981.pdf;
Ruining Hou, January 16, 2019, https://www.jiemian.com/article/2798250.html.

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2019 Q2, released June 1, 2019

• Crude oil pipelines: 95 pipelines with a total length of 24,389 km and total throughput capacity of 19.04 million bpd (MBD);
• Refined product pipelines: 80 pipelines with a total network length of 26,180 km and a total throughput capacity of 5.8 MBD;
• Oil refineries: 201 facilities with 21.1 MBD of processing capacity;
• Oil storage facilities: 283 facilities with approximately 1.06 billion barrels of total storage capacity (crude oil: 72 facilities with 702.3 million barrels of capacity; refined products: 211 facilities with 355.4 million barrels of capacity); and
• Oil Ports: 56 docking facilities for oil tankers with a total throughput capacity of 15.05 MBD

Table 1: China Oil Map Data Coverage Compared to Public Estimates

Sources: National Development and Reform Commission of China, http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/zcfb/zcfbtz/201701/W020170119333354977981.pdf; 
Ruining Hou, January 16, 2019, https://www.jiemian.com/article/2798250.html.

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2019 Q1, released February 25, 2019 (Original version)

• Crude oil pipelines: 95 pipelines with a total length of 24,389 km and total throughput capacity of 19.04 million bpd (MBD);
• Refined product pipelines: 80 pipelines with a total network length of 26,180 km and a total throughput capacity of 5.8 MBD;
• Oil refineries: 194 facilities with 18.6 MBD of processing capacity; and
• Oil storage facilities: 278 facilities with approximately 1 billion barrels of total storage capacity (crude oil: 68 facilities with 661.6 million barrels of capacity; refined products: 210 facilities with 352.2 million barrels of capacity)

Table 1: China Oil Map Data Coverage Compared to Public Estimates

Sources: National Development and Reform Commission of China, http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/zcfb/zcfbtz/201701/W020170119333354977981.pdf; 
Ruining Hou, January 16, 2019, https://www.jiemian.com/article/2798250.html.