1.   More oil will be shipped by small companies.

2.   And the port from which the oil was shipped had been damaged.

3.   Baghdad has rejected U.N. offers in the past partly because it refused to ship oil through the Kurdish-occupied territory in northern Iraq.

4.   A pipeline south through Iran to the Gulf, where the oil could be shipped more conveniently to fast-growing Asian energy markets, has also been proposed.

5.   Aliyev also expressed interest in someday shipping oil through Iran, an alarming idea for U.S. officials backing a route that passes through nations friendly to the West.

6.   But oil traders closely follow, tanker by tanker, how much oil is being shipped, and that information should have a great effect on prices.

7.   Chief among them is whether the companies drilling in Kazakhstan would ship oil through the line or send it north and west through Russia.

8.   Construction of the pipeline was permitted as long as it was only used to ship ANS oil domestically.

9.   During the Bosnian war, Greek companies shipped oil to the Bosnian Serbs and to Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia, in violation of the United Nations economic embargo.

10.   From the U.S. border, Lakehead takes over, shipping the oil through pipelines to the U.S. Midwest.