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China and Russia suspend pipeline talks
AFP - Thursday, November 13
MOSCOW (AFP) - - Russia and China have suspended talks on the construction on a new Siberian oil pipeline, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.
Citing a source close to the negotiations, Interfax said China wanted to attach "absurd conditions" to a 25-billion-dollar (20-billion-euro) loan package for Russian state pipeline monopoly Transneft and oil production company Rosneft, which was negotiated in exchange for importing oil to China.
Another source close to the management of China's state oil company CNPC said that China had asked for higher rates of interest owing to the recent freeze in lending following the financial crisis.
A Transneft spokesman told Interfax that the company regretted China's decision.
Transneft and CNPC signed a long-awaited deal at the end of October during a visit to Moscow by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
The pipeline would have run from the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean trunk pipeline, which is still under construction, to the Chinese border. Capacity was expected to be about 15 million tonnes per year.
The branch pipeline was planned to run some 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Skovorodino in Siberia to the Chinese border and was to eventually supply the oil hub of Daqing in northern China.
Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil major, currently supplies China with oil by rail. Despite being China's neighbour, Russia is only the fifth-largest supplier of crude oil to the energy-hungry Chinese market.
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