61.   The Iranian oil-swap accord can move that production to market sooner than the Caspian pipeline could be built.

62.   The pipeline here was built with the breathtaking speed born of a poor, violent nation seeking economic redemption through the discovery of oil.

63.   The oil companies sign leases with mineral owners, which grant them rights to drill wells and build pipelines.

64.   The plant is part of a plan to build a pipeline to carry natural gas from fields off-shore across Thailand to Malaysia.

65.   The two companies had been reluctant to shoulder the investments to develop the field and build a pipeline to the main island of Luzon without a guaranteed market.

66.   The United States, for example, is eager to build a pipeline for oil from the Central Asian republics that does not go through Russia.

67.   Therefore, Turkish officials say, the only solution is to build a pipeline across their country.

68.   Though profits were generally down from the year before, all three said they would push ahead with plans to upgrade fields and build new pipelines.

69.   Turkey is offering oil companies new incentives to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea that the United States considers strategically vital.

70.   Together, the two companies plan to design and build a pipeline connecting Russia with western European gas markets.