Highlights:

• Siberian oil pipeline is to run 2,565 miles - more than three times the length of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

• With a price tag of $15.5 billion, it looms as modern Russia's biggest infrastructure investment.

• China and Japan both rely on the Middle East for about 85 percent of their oil imports, both economic giants competed fiercely over what could be the world's longest and most expensive oil pipeline.

• Japan won and will help partially pay for the for the four fott diameter pipe that will inevitably bind Japan to Russia.

• Pipeline won't be constructed for at least a decade.

• By then, will there be enough oil to fill the pipe?

• Sea of Japan oil and gas processing facilities have tremendous environmental opposition.

But what about the Bridge ...?

Direct pipeline to North America (for Natural Gas mostly)


52 miles long; 100 Billion dollar project

Ice flow pressure; an engineering nightmare

WEather allows physical construction only 4 months per year.

Maybe a Tunnel is better?