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Stock Market Game After decades in the talking stages, the rival projects to pump Siberian oil to either northern China or the Japan Sea have turned into something of a regional soap opera, with Beijing and Tokyo courting a very coy Moscow.

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Stock Investing Game Until recently, China was seen as the suitor most likely to succeed, largely because its plan, which would have a shorter pipeline ending in its inland city of Daqing, would be cheaper to build.

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Journal Prime Rate Street Wall But with increasing signs that a decision may finally be near -- possibly as early as this fall -- Japan is turning up the heat and offering to open up its checkbook.

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Stock Market News Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a plea for the Japan Sea plan during a visit to Russia in January, and then again last month. His predecessor followed up last week. And Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi is on her way to Vladivostok on Saturday.

Stock Investing Basics Hitoshi Onishi, an energy analyst with Cosmo Securities in Tokyo, said Japan must import almost all of its oil and is heavily dependent on the volatile Middle East. The Iraq war has increased its desire to end this dependence.

Stock Investing Software ``Securing such an alternate source of energy is crucial,'' he said.

Stock Market Trading The line envisioned by Tokyo would link oil fields near the Siberian city of Angarsk to the port city of Nakhodka, covering about 2,300 miles on a route that winds around northeastern China, entirely within Russian territory, at an estimated cost of $5 billion.

Stock Investing For Dummy The smaller proposed pipeline would stretch from Russia into China, covering about 1,400 miles and costing $2.5 billion to reach Daqing.

Stock Market Crash Daqing seemed to have won the contest last month, when newly inaugurated Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Moscow for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Stock Investing Tip During the visit, China National Petroleum Corp. and Russia's Yukos oil company signed a preliminary agreement on a $150 billion deal to ship Siberian oil via the Angarsk-Daqing pipeline, prompting many observers to assume Russia had chosen the Chinese route.

Stock Market Chart But as the parade of Russia-bound Japanese officials suggests, Tokyo has not given up.

Online Stock Investing Shortly after Hu met Putin, Koizumi went to St. Petersburg during that city's 300th anniversary celebrations in late May and had a brief summit of his own with Putin to push for the Nakhodka route.

Stock Market Crash Of Putin emerged from the meeting saying neither possibility had been ruled out.

Stock Investing For Beginner Then, last week, Putin praised the Nakhodka plan, saying it would allow Russia to export its energy resources not just to Japan, but to the United States, South Korea and the entire Asia-Pacific region.

Finance Journal Personal Going Japan's way could boost Russia's economy.

Stock Market Report Japan National Oil Corp. President Yoshiro Kamata, visiting the region in mid-April, reportedly said Japan was willing to invest $1 billion in the Russian Far East if the Nakhodka pipeline were built.

Finance Investing Stock Market Russian officials, meanwhile, have indicated they do not necessarily see the matter as an either-or question, and have suggested a compromise in which a spur could be built to link the Nakhodka line with Daqing.

Wall Street Journal Com But Putin last week acknowledged it was still unclear whether there would be enough oil to fill it.

Stock Market Investing Advice ``The Angarsk-Nakhodka option looks preferable because it allows broad access to markets,'' he said. ``That's an attractive option, and the only question is whether it's economically feasible.''

Street Trader Wall Russia's Cabinet had been expected to make the final choice in May or early this month, but Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov last week said the decision would be made in the autumn.

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