Venezuela has an extensive domestic Oil Pipeline system, providing transportation from production centers to refineries and coastal export terminals. Currently, the country does not have any export pipelines, but there has been some discussion about constructing an oil pipeline to port in Colombia along the Pacific Ocean. This would facilitate greater Venezuelan crude exports to Asia, bypassing the Panama Canal bottleneck or the high costs of shipping around Cape Horn. There has been some discussion of Chinese oil firms providing financing for such a pipeline, but no solid plans have yet emerged.