Talakan Oil Flows into the Pacific

摘要

The idea of building a pipeline that would link Russia s Siberian oilfields with the Pacfic Ocean ccast existed even in tne Soviet davs However, it took more than three decades from dotting the future trunkline'e s route on a project rrap to loading first oil onto a tanker in the Kozmino Bay Meanwhile the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the fast-paced development of southeast Asia tremendously spuned oil demand in the region The emergence of Asia as one of the global leaders in oil consumption justified the implementation of a project often compared in scale with the construction of the Baikal-Amur railway.