Subject: EEE会議（Re：日露エネルギー協力：　シベリアの石油パイプライン問題）
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:52:19 +0900
From: "kkaneko" <kkaneko@eagle.ocn.ne.jp>

各位

こ件に関してロンドンのFinancial Times (１月１４日付け）が次の記事（抜
粋）を載せていますので、ご参考まで。　全文は次のサイトでどうぞ。

http://news.ft.com/world/asiapacific [click on "Struggle looms over
rival oil pipeline routes from Siberia to the east"]

金子熊夫
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Struggle looms over rival oil pipeline routes from Siberia to the east

By Andrew Jack and David Stern in Moscow and David Buchan in
London

The agreement by the leaders of Russia and Japan yesterday to
examine the construction of a Siberian pipeline to the Far East
highlights the growing competition for energy sources outside the
Arab world.

Until now, attempts to get more of Russia's surging oil production in
its landlocked Siberian oilfields to world markets have mainly
focused on improving Russia's western outlets in the Arctic, the
Baltic and the Black Sea.


Now, the interest in a pipeline from Angarsk to the Pacific port of
Nakhodka raises the prospect of a struggle between Japan and
China over a rival project from Angarsk to Manchuria. It also opens
the prospect of Japan reducing its heavy dependence on Arab
energy, while furthering the US desire for a more diversified world
oil
market.

Just a few years ago, a single oil route from Russia's eastern flanks
into the Asian market seemed little more than a pipedream. The
rival projects that have now emerged show just how far the regional
economic and political situation has changed.

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