11.   Officials all along have said they suspected a leak in an underground gas main carrying liquid petroleum was responsible for the blast.

12.   Shipping Minister Mohammed Ashraff told reporters that the rebels may have been targeting a liquid petroleum gas vessel in the harbor.

13.   The company is also exploring the possibility of marketing liquid petroleum gas, he said.

14.   The California Highway Patrol said the cargo was a mixture of butane and liquid petroleum gas, a highly flammable liquid.

15.   The oil spilled from the Panama-flagged Gaz Diamond, a liquid petroleum tanker, said Scott Casad, a Coast Guard spokesman.

16.   The pipes that caught fire feed liquid petroleum gas to the plant.

17.   Information technology products, steel and automobiles powered export gains, while the drop in imports was led by a fall in liquid petroleum gas, the official said.

18.   The recovered liquid petroleum gas and natural gasoline from the gas processing plant would be supplied for domestic use.

19.   The afternoon blast occurred in a line carrying liquid petroleum gas, but its cause was not immediately known, company officials said.