The China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co., Ltd. (CPP) is a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corporation and the primary builder of pipelines in China. The company has built much of the cross-country pipeline infrastructure in China and had several large-scale projects abroad.[1]
Projects
Habshan–Fujairah oil pipeline, a 1.5 million-barrel-per-day crude oil pipeline from Habshan, Abu Dhabi to Fujairah.[2] It was built by CPP and China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation, another subsidiary of CNPC, in a project under a construction contract for US$3.29 billion. The construction work was carried out from March 2008 to March 2011.
In August 2018, the Pakatan Harapanseventh cabinet of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed canceled a CPP project in Malaysia, accusing it of participating in corruption.[3] The company denied the allegations. At the time, the project paid for by the Malaysian government, was only 13% incomplete, but the money paid corresponded with a project that was close to 80% complete. In July 2019, Malaysian authorities seized $243.5M from China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering to compensate for the paid for but unfinished pipelines.[4][5]
^Palma, Stefania (September 9, 2018). "Malaysia cancels China-backed pipeline projects". The Financial Times. Archived from the original on September 9, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2018. Lim Guan Eng, Malaysian finance minister, said the cancelled projects were two oil and gas pipelines in mainland Malaysia and the island of Borneo that cost more than $1bn apiece, and a $795m pipeline linking the state of Malacca to a Petronas refinery and petrochemical plant in the state of Johor [...] Only an average of 13 per cent of the pipelines' construction has been completed, while almost 90 per cent of the projects' value has been paid to contractor China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau, according to the finance ministry.
