Gazprom starts building key gas pipeline; Part of export route to Pacific Rim moves ahead in 'temporary' downturn

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Moscow-Gazprom has started construction of a natural gas pipeline in Russia's far east to link its energy-rich Sakhalin Island with Khabarovsk and Vladivostok on the mainland, the gas giant said July 31. The link is expected to become a part of an export route to the Pacific Rim. The first 1,350-km (620-mile) section of the pipeline, with a capacity to transport 6 billion cubic meters/year of gas, is to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2011.