http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2005/04/21/044.htmlRussia will likely build a pipeline to transport oil to China from Siberia before completing a pipeline to Japan, Japanese media reported Wednesday, citing Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko.
Russia will first build a pipeline from eastern Siberia to Skovorodino, the midway point of the proposed 4,200 -kilometer pipeline to the Pacific coast, Jiji news agency quoted Khristenko as telling a group of Japanese reporters in Moscow.
Russia will then build an oil terminal in Skovorodino and send oil to China through a branch pipeline, said Khristenko, who is due to visit Tokyo on Thursday and Friday.
That indicated the branch pipeline would be completed before the entire pipeline to a port near Nakhodka, where the oil would be shipped to Japan, the report said.