OREANDA-NEWS. April 08, 2011. China Petroleum and Chemical Corpora tion, parent of Sinopec has completed t he building of a commercial crude oil reserve base at Maoming city's B eishanling in south China Guangdong province, according to a report by China Petrochemical News.

The reserve, completed on March 31, a month ahead of the schedul e, is expected to come on stream on April 20.

Built by Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical, the reserve in Beishanli ng is the largest commercial reserve in west Guangdong province and is expected to boost the crude reserve capacity in Maoming city of south west Guangdong.

It is mainly fed by low pour crude oil imported via Maoming Petr ochemical's single point mooring (SPM) terminals and subsea crude pipeline.