1.   Any such review would postpone a final decision on a pipeline route at least until spring.

2.   A spokeswoman for the oil consortium, Pamela Mounter, said executives hoped to recommend a pipeline route next week.

3.   But civil unrest along the pipeline route complicates the task of raising investment to build it.

4.   But he said competition for pipeline routes would shape events in the Caspian region for decades to come.

5.   But the company could not control the new construction that spread across New Jersey farmland and squeezed in along the pipeline route.

6.   Choosing the permanent pipeline route will be a political ballet requiring grace, timing and a talent for spreading the money.

7.   Dagestan and other unstable southern provinces lay along the pipeline route to the oil-rich Caspian Sea.

8.   It is an area with rapidly shifting political alliances and immensely valuable oil pipeline routes.

9.   Leaders of countries around the Caspian Sea declared Thursday that they want to export their new-found oil along a pipeline route favored by the United States.

10.   Natural gas pipeline routes being studied include a path from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan.