Almaty. December 5. Kazakhstan Today - The 4th Russian-Chinese-Kazakhstan oil-and-gas forum started its work in Pekin today, the agency reports referring to the official site of the organizer of the forum - Confidence Energy Ltd. Company. The oil-and-gas forum will be held on December 5-7, 2007 in China hotel World-Shangri-la. More than 200 representatives of oil-and-gas companies, banks, power departments of Russia, China and Kazakhstan are taking part in the event. According to Confidence Energy, "the forum was opened by its co-chairmen - Andrey Rudenko, the Director of Confidence Energy Zhang Deguan, ex-Executive Secretary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the chairman of Sian Eurasian Economic Forum. One of the directions of cooperation that Z. Deguan talked about was construction in 2008 of the branch in China of oil pipeline Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean. "The topic of the first day of the forum - Condition and prospects of development of energy markets of China, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Asian-Pacific region," the message of the organizer of the forum states.