"The professionalism of Chinese engineers and technicians is admirable"

Facing the morning glow of the Bay of Bengal, Zhang Wei, the construction manager of the tank farm of the Bangladesh single point mooring project, rushed from the camp to the construction site. The roar of machinery and the shuttle of vehicles on the construction site made the construction workers very busy. Bangladesh has the best weather conditions in January, which is the golden time for project construction. Zhang Wei said: "This is the fifth Spring Festival I have spent here. Every New Year, I will take a New Year's greeting video on the construction site and send it to my family. Watching the storage tanks and buildings designed and built by us go up from the ground , I am very proud of myself.”

Bangladesh currently has only one refinery with an annual processing capacity of 1.5 million tons of crude oil. Because it cannot meet the demand, the Bangladeshi government plans to increase it to 4.5 million tons. At present, all the crude oil required by the refinery is imported from abroad, transported by large tankers to the coastal waters of Bangladesh, and then transferred to the refinery wharf by small tankers. In order to meet the needs of refinery expansion, the Bangladeshi government plans to build a single-point mooring and oil pipeline in the eastern region of the Bay of Bengal to transport oil from large tankers directly to the refinery.

The Bangladesh single-point mooring project undertaken by China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau is the first batch of important oil and gas storage and transportation projects to be implemented in Bangladesh under the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", and started construction in 2019. The project includes the construction of a single point mooring system, tank farms and stations, and the laying of 220 kilometers of offshore and land oil pipelines. After the project is completed, it can solve the problem that 100,000-ton tankers cannot berth at Chittagong, Bangladesh, and must rely on sea ships to transport crude oil. It is estimated that the transportation cost will be saved by 128 million U.S. dollars per year, and the crude oil unloading efficiency will be improved by about 5.5 times. The project can also avoid environmental pollution caused by crude oil leakage and reduce the cost of crude oil transshipment, which is of great significance to energy conservation and environmental protection.

In order to complete the project as soon as possible, many Chinese employees chose to stay in Bangladesh during the Spring Festival. Gao Fei, a post-90s technician, said: "Many colleagues have not been home for more than a year, and many people still choose to celebrate the New Year on the project this year. Everyone sticks to overseas because they have a mission to build the project well."

This year's Spring Festival, the project department has a strong sense of the year: writing Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles, watching the Spring Festival Gala, cooking New Year's Eve dinner, holding rings, lucky draws and other interesting activities...More than 100 Chinese employees and more than 1,100 Bangladeshi employees celebrated the Lunar Rabbit together new year.

Xing Jun, who is in charge of material management, said: "I haven't been home for more than a year. It must be a lie to say that I don't want to go home. I feel very relieved to be able to celebrate the Chinese New Year with the Chinese and Bangladeshi employees on the project. I will keep my family in my heart. Happiness is always around you.”

"It is worthwhile to raise the level of China's pipeline installation technology to a new level and contribute to the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road'," said Sun Bijun, project manager of the single point mooring project in Bangladesh.

The Bangladeshi owner and supervisor spoke highly of the Chinese company's technical strength, construction quality, work efficiency and dedication, and the project received attention and praise from the Bangladesh Ministry of Energy and Mines and Bangladeshi mainstream media. Hasennath, the manager of the Bangladesh project, said that the single point mooring project in Bangladesh will bring great development to the local area. I am very grateful to the builders of China and Bangladesh for their persistence and dedication.

Torkai, the representative of the German supervision company, has been with this "hardworking, professional and efficient construction team" in his mouth for 5 years. Speaking of the Chinese partner, he was full of praise: "During the epidemic, the Chinese construction team set two industry records for sea-land directional drilling crossing and channel deep trenching. Now that the project is in the final stage, they gave up the Spring Festival holiday and worked conscientiously The professionalism of Chinese engineers and technicians is admirable!"