1.   If it is too high, it can cause the pipeline to start cracking.

2.   The pipeline will start in Emidio in the Bakersfield, Calif. area and wind through the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys to Los Angeles area refineries.

3.   The second big pipeline would start in Azerbaijan, on the other side of the Caspian.

4.   Last week, a new pipeline started carrying oil from Baku to the Black Sea port of Supsa, Georgia, the main alternative of Ceyhan.

5.   The pipeline started making deliveries in mid-December after a two-year delay and bilateral wrangling over technical matters.

6.   The pipeline starts at Yamal in Siberia and runs through to the German-Polish border.

7.   The pipeline starts opposite an island off the Croatian coast.

8.   The Iraqi-Turkish pipeline starts from Karkuk and ends in the Turkish Mediterranean port of Yumortalik.