Russia-China pipeline oil to flow end 2008-Transneft

BEIJING, Mar 22 (Reuters) Oil will start flowing through a planned Russia-China pipeline towards the end of 2008, the president of Russia's Transneft said today.

''The first oil will go at the end of 2008,'' Semyon Vainstok told Reuters. He added he was confident that there was enough oil from Western Siberia to fill the China pipeline.

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