11.   Those agencies have no direct authority over pipelines but have nonetheless secured hefty fines and major pipeline improvements through litigation under the Clean Water Act.

12.   A major pipeline bringing natural gas from Central Asia to Russia developed a leak and burst Saturday, halting gas supplies, officials said.

13.   After that conflict, hundreds of makeshift refineries sprouted up around the republic as enterprising Chechens siphoned off oil from a major pipeline for fuel.

14.   Alliance is one of two major pipelines in the area.

15.   An agreement has already been signed with Georgia to ship oil from Azerbaijan to the Black Sea port of Supsa, which will require major pipeline construction and refurbishment.

16.   But a major pipeline, which could handle large quantities of oil, is still expected to take years to build.

17.   FERC spokeswoman Tamara Young-Allen said she knows of no existing major pipelines in the Great Lakes.

18.   Morocco has been widely criticized for serving as a major pipeline supplying Europe with hashish and other drugs.

19.   The first major pipeline transporting Caspian Sea oil reserves runs through Georgia, and the country also has untapped oil reserves of its own.

20.   The industry may be better prepared for problems this time and a major pipeline which shut down last summer is now back in full operation, the report said.