61.   In bypassing Turkey, he said, the pipeline project would help balance geopolitical forces in the Black Sea basin.

62.   In the joint statement, Greece also said it would seek European Union funding for the pipeline project.

63.   Iran claims Azerbaijan caved in to U.S. pressure to back an oil pipeline project to Turkey that bypasses Iran.

64.   Makki noted that major projects, including an oil refinery, an aluminum smelter, a petrochemical plant and a natural gas pipeline project, will proceed as planned.

65.   Meanwhile, the Pentagon has cast doubt on reports suggesting that an ambitious Libyan desert pipeline project may actually have a clandestine military purpose.

66.   Most recently, Cheney has been queried about a Halliburton joint venture in Myanmar for a pipeline project cited for human rights abuses.

67.   Mujahid said Iran was trying to destabilize his government to block potentially lucrative gas and oil pipeline projects between the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.

68.   Noppadol said the Industry Ministry will urge the National Economic and Social Development Board to support the gas pipeline project.

69.   One is accused of misusing workers in a Myanmar pipeline project, another of profiting from slave labor in Nazi Germany.

70.   Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday discussed a key oil pipeline project and the simmering dispute over sharing resources in the Caspian Sea.