China received 7.73 million metric tons or around 155,000 barrels a day of crude oil from the Sino-Kazakhstan crude pipeline last year, the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
Crude deliveries in 2009 through the pipeline, which has an annual capacity of 10 million tons, rose 26% on year, Xinhua said.
The transmission capacity of the pipeline, which started operating in 2006, is expected to be doubled by 2012.