Russia likely to delay oil pipeline to China

Moscow: Russia may delay the launch of its first oil pipeline to China for a year to September 2009, Interfax news agency quoted a source as saying on Friday.

“Transneft suggests putting off the launch by a year,” Interfax quoted what it said was a government source as saying.


“There is a certain construction technology: if they don’t manage to commission the oil pipeline by September 2008, the next possible term is September 2009, no later,” the source told Interfax.

Transneft, Russia’s oil pipeline monopoly, was not immediately available for comment.

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