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To: mishedlo who wrote (64272)3/7/2007 10:14:24 PM
From: Think4Yourself  Respond to of 116555
 
I would like to point out that Greenspan said =>A<= bottom has been hit, not THE bottom has been hit.

OTOH, I am beginning to wonder if his ivory tower has any windows. The subprime situation virtually guarantees the housing industry goes substantially lower.



To: mishedlo who wrote (64272)3/8/2007 4:20:48 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Respond to of 116555
 
Putin to visit Greece for signing of oil pipeline deal
Mar 07 2007, 16:46

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Greece next week for the signing of a long-delayed oil pipeline deal, the Kremlin said.

During the March 14-15 visit, Putin will meet with the Greek and Bulgarian presidents, the Kremlin said late Tuesday. It said an agreement between the three governments for "cooperation on the construction and use" of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline would be signed during the summit.

Putin has visited Greece twice in the past two years amid talks on the 285-kilometer (178-mile) pipeline, $1.2 billion venture to carry Russian oil across Bulgaria and Greece to the Mediterranean Sea.

Putin last month warned that Russia would seek alternative supply routes if a pipeline agreement was not concluded soon. Within days, the three countries initialed a deal setting out the project details, paving the way for the forthcoming agreement.

Bulgaria's government said Wednesday that Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev would be in Athens on March 14-15 to attend the signing, and that Development Minister Asen Gagauzov would sign the document on behalf of Bulgaria.

The pipeline, bypassing Turkey's cramped Bosporus Strait, would carry oil from Burgas on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast to the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Mediterranean. It is tentatively scheduled for completion by 2010.

Authorities say the pipeline would initially carry 700,000 barrels of oil a day, with capacity set to eventually increase to more than 1 million barrels a day.

A consortium of companies from the three countries - including Russia's state-controlled Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Transneft, as well as Greece's Hellenic Petroleum SA - are to build and operate the project.