11.   The project faces big challenges before construction can begin because the pipeline will run through Afghanistan, which is in the midst of a civil war, Unocal said.

12.   Turkmenistan has huge reserves of natural gas, but its only export pipeline runs through Russia.

13.   Under the new plan, the pipeline will run almost exclusively under MacQuesten Parkway, traverse an industrial area and abut the Bronx River Parkway.

14.   Others, including the United States, want the pipeline to run into Turkey.

15.   Bhutto cited Turkmenistan as one of the former Soviet Union states in the region through which the pipeline could run.

16.   However, it was not clear if the pipeline from northern Iraqi fields to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan ran dry as a result of the Iraqi decision.

17.   It is unclear where exactly the main pipeline will run, but it will probably bypass Russia altogether, running instead through the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

18.   It is absurd to claim that any project is completely secure, much less a gas pipeline running along an active fault line and a civil war zone.

19.   Several pipelines run through Georgia itself.

20.   Russia fears that if the pipeline runs overland from Baku it would diminish some of its regional clout.