Malaysia’s Trans Peninsular Pipeline Project: Will It Take Off? – Analysis

February 28, 2014

Going through Kedah and Kelantan. Not in this political lifetime.

Dateline 2014-01-16, Albany Tribune (what?):

MALAYSIA’S TRANS Peninsular Pipeline Project (TPP) between Kedah on the west coast and Kelantan on the east seems to have been revived. First proposed in 1994, the project had experienced some difficulties in the initial years and came to a halt in 2010. If realised, the 310-km pipeline will move oil from the coastal city of Yan in Kedah to Bachok in Kelantan and out to the South China Sea.

The New Straits Times reported that during the Fifth World Chinese Economic Forum held in Kuala Lumpur in October 2013, China had shown interest to revive the privately-funded TPP, estimated to cost more than US$7 billion. Chinese President Xi Jinping has yet to confirm how this is to be carried out.

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Article ‘Kenapa BN Mahu Sangat Rampas Kelantan’ – Take 4

April 4, 2008

Still commenting on the above article, I had some word on the map.

Peta rangkaian hidrokarbon Semenanjung Malaysia

First thing I would like to point out is that the author says the green and blue line represents an oil transportation system.

At the moment, peninsular Malaysia has no oil transportation system. And there are no plans to have a consumer level transportation system (i.e. from refinery to distribution centre, to being piped into petrol stations and the like).

The blue line going from Kota Bharu to Gurun is possibly referring to the Trans-Peninsular Pipeline, which is getting a lot of press release last month (April, 2008). The pipeline will be used to transport crude from Yan to KB, with the intent of saving the travel time to send crude carriers around the Malaysian Peninsular via the Malacca Straits.

You can read articles on the commercial feasibility of the pipeline here and here.

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