21.   This grand rivalry has begun with an intense competition for control over pipeline routes that will carry Caspian oil to foreign markets.

22.   Washington has made the crucial pledge that ships carrying oil bound for Montenegro will be exempt from the planned embargo on Serbia.

23.   When Romans went to public baths, Dr. Auth said, they carried their oil in glass flasks with bronze handles.

24.   Police detained the drivers of eight heavy trucks carrying stolen oil, the report said.

25.   A key pipeline carrying Caspian Sea oil will be shut down indefinitely following an explosion in southern Russia near the lawless territory of Chechnya, officials said Tuesday.

26.   A Panamanian-registered tanker carrying lubricating oil sank Thursday in the Luzon Sea in the northern Philippines, the Coast Guard said.

27.   A senior U.S. official arrived in Ankara Thursday for consultations with Turkish officials on a proposed pipeline to carry Caspian oil to Western markets through Turkey.

28.   An illegal tap siphoning oil out of a pipeline carrying low-grade oil has caused an oil spill in Siberia, officials said Tuesday.

29.   An Emirates official speaking on condition of anonymity, however, said the vessel was a very old Iraqi tanker that was carrying oil from Iraq to Pakistan.

30.   Another occurred on a train carrying oil from Beijing to southwestern Sichuan province, it said.