1.   And a branch gas pipeline will run near Batumi, close to the other Russian base.

2.   But such a pipeline would run through the battleground of Chechnya.

3.   From there, a pipeline will run north to Lima, and south to Ilo, where mining companies such as Southern Peru Copper Corp. have their operations.

4.   Moscow wants new pipelines to run south to Persian Gulf through Iran, while Washington wants to see a westward flow through Turkey.

5.   Other analysts are alarmed because the pipeline runs through a mountain called Tarhuna.

6.   Russia wants the pipeline to run through its territory but the United States wants it to run west, through Georgia and into Turkey, a NATO ally.

7.   She hopes that the pipeline will run nearby, because the Mackenzie delta has eight trillion cubic feet of its own gas reserves.

8.   Support for the gas pipeline is especially robust, though energy industry executives and Alaskan and Canadian leaders are feuding over just where such a pipeline should run.

9.   The growing imports of cheaper gas from Canada, he said, will level off this year because delivery pipelines are already running at capacity.

10.   The only existing alternative pipeline does not run through Russia at all, but westward from Baku to the Black Sea port of Supsa in Georgia.