Putin says gas pipeline from Russia to South Korea still possible

Platts ^ | 11/12/2013 | Platts

[TexGrill]

Construction of a natural gas pipeline from Russia to South Korea is still possible despite obvious difficulties in its implementation and the development of new Russian LNG projects aimed at Asian exports, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

Russia is actively developing LNG projects, including in the northern Yamal Peninsula and in its Far Eastern regions, in the proximity to South Korea, but supplies of pipeline gas to this Asian country are also possible, Putin said in an interview with South Korea's KBS, broadcast by state-run Russian 24 TV network.

One of the option to organize pipeline gas supplies is to build an onshore transportation route via the North Korea, "which is safer and cheaper if put aside problems of political nature," he said.

[TexGrill]

Global business tip

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"which is safer and cheaper if put aside problems of political nature,"

put aside problems of political nature? How do you do that?

[mosesdapoet]

Suspicions confirmed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3090610/posts
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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TexGrill.

[Berosus]

The only way I see to avoid political problems is to run the pipeline under the sea, directly from Vladivostok to a South Korean port like Kyongju, and avoid North Korea altogether.

[null and void]

Agreed, but Russia specifically wants the pipe on dry land.

And Kim Il whatever (either this one, his offspring, their offsprungs, heirs, successors or assigns) will want to choke off SKs supply for political/economic gain.

[SunkenCiv]

That must be what they plan, and the S Koreans have excellent experience with (for example) submerged roadways.