1.   The settlement also requires Koch to improve its program of preventing and detecting pipeline leaks and to better inspect and maintain its pipelines.

2.   The winner of the contract to construct the pipeline, which will be awarded before September, will also operate and maintain the pipeline.

3.   TransWave sells equipment to monitor and maintain pipelines.

4.   But U.S. officials said there is no real hurry and that parts to maintain the pipeline are on hand in Turkey and Iraq.

5.   Russian pipelines are poorly maintained.

6.   The pipeline is maintained by BOTAS, the state-run pipeline company.

7.   Turkey has received U.N. permission to export spare parts to maintain the pipeline in Iraq.

8.   Turkey is responsible for maintaining the pipeline in Turkey and Iraq.