31.   An Iraqi opposition group charged last week that the barge that sank near Umm Al Quwain was carrying oil for an Iraqi businessman.

32.   Dogan said a technical delegation went to Iraq on Sunday to examine the status of the pipeline that will carry oil from the Kirkuk oil fields to Yumurtalik.

33.   Foreign Minister Ismail Cem will visit neighboring Azerbaijan next week to press for a Turkish pipeline to carry Azeri oil to Western markets, the ministry said Tuesday.

34.   From Ain Sukhna, the oil would be carried via the Sumed pipeline to the Mediterranean port of Sidi Kirir for distribution to Europe, the agency said.

35.   He said the cleanup would take up to four days, but that winds and tide suggested the oil would be carried out to sea.

36.   In Moscow, Russian officials denied that the tanker was carrying Iraqi oil.

37.   In order to bypass Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed an agreement last month to build a trans-Balkan pipeline to carry the oil to Europe.

38.   It was not carrying oil.

39.   It would prohibit shipping companies from EU nations to carry oil to Yugoslav ports.

40.   Last week, a new pipeline started carrying oil from Baku to the Black Sea port of Supsa, Georgia, the main alternative of Ceyhan.