41.   Petroecuador is considering letting foreign oil companies build the pipeline on their own, without a government concession.

42.   Russia plans to build a pipeline around that troubled area.

43.   Russia wanted pipelines built on its territory, and some were.

44.   Rising natural gas demand has prompted companies to build transportation pipelines at a frenzied pace.

45.   Russia proposes that the main export pipeline be built along this route, rather than across Turkey as the United States wants.

46.   Russia wants the main export pipeline built across its territory instead of across Georgia.

47.   Separately, Phillips is building a pipeline to carry fuels from Cushing to Kansas.

48.   Russia is even making progress with a proposal to build a pipeline to carry Russian crude to eastern China.

49.   Several said that given economic realities, they could understand a decision by the companies to build a pipeline only as far as Georgia.

50.   Since oil companies will pay for whatever pipeline is built, they are in the catbird seat, and governments in the Caspian area are fervently wooing them.