1.   A special windfall tax will be levied if a massive gas deposit is discovered.

2.   The flat, pinkish worms may affect how sea-floor gas deposits form and dissolve in seawater, Dr. Fisher said.

3.   Their aim ranged from dam-building at Udachny to the creation of an underground oil tank and the compression of gas deposits near Taas-Yuryakh.

4.   Their markets and resources, which include large oil and gas deposits, have only begun to be exploited.

5.   Unocal recently paid the government several million dollars for new rights to explore offshore gas deposits.

6.   Pipeline talk began three decades ago with the discovery of Arctic gas deposits, setting off an initial exploration boom in the Inuvik area.

7.   At stake, aside from national pride, are fishing grounds around the islets and a possibility of finding undersea gas deposits.

8.   He added that unexplored regions in southwestern, northeastern, and the Caspian Sea regions of Iran are likely to hold further gas deposits.

9.   Ilnytsky told the Interfax news agency that three other offshore areas may also prove to have gas deposits.

10.   Mobil and BHP, both operating in the same basin, would be able to connect any future commercial gas deposits with the pipeline.