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WATCHING THE WORLD: Questions loom over ESPO line

04/21/2008
How long have we been hearing about Russia’s East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline project? The debate has been interminable. Even as far back as 2005, Russian officials were fuming about lack of progress.That’s when Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, in an effort to speed implementation of the project, directed relevant ministries and departments to prepare a detailed proposal by Nov. 10 of that year.Fradkov had signed a resolution on Dec. 31, 2004, to construct the pipeline, with state-run OAO Transneft as its designer and builder.Stages plannedThe first stage of the project called for a 2,400-km oil pipeline from Taishet to Skovorodino, near the border with China,...
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