21.   Companies investing in gas pipelines would have to be Mexican, but foreign investors could have stakes in those firms.

22.   Confab said it will bid to supply pipes for the Brazil-Bolivia gas pipeline.

23.   Consider Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA, which operates gas pipelines connecting southern and western Argentina with Buenos Aires.

24.   Discussions regarding a gas pipeline are likely, he said.

25.   Eventually there may even be a gas pipeline that runs through Afghanistan and eastward toward China.

26.   Finally, a consortium of international energy companies is building a gas pipeline across the Pantanal, from gas-rich Bolivia to energy-starved Sao Paulo.

27.   Government experts identified nuclear power plants as perhaps the most attractive targets, but said dams, gas pipelines and oil refineries were not far behind.

28.   Having connections with several gas pipelines is important in preventing shortages if the gas market becomes tight, Hubbard said.

29.   He and state officials cautioned, however, that as windfalls go, a gas pipeline would not compare with the one for oil.

30.   He managed to convert that into a gas congeneration plant and he expanded the company into such fields as interstate gas pipelines and oil exploration.