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  • noun Plural form of pipeline.

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  • But, as Unocal and other oil firms, intrigued by the idea of building energy pipelines from the Caspian Sea across Afghanistan to Indian Ocean energy hubs like Gwadar, eventually found out, the Taliban were hardly an agent of stability.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • But, as Unocal and other oil firms, intrigued by the idea of building energy pipelines from the Caspian Sea across Afghanistan to Indian Ocean energy hubs like Gwadar, eventually found out, the Taliban were hardly an agent of stability.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • PHMSA's policy for natural gas pipelines is also at odds with its handling of spill plans prepared by oil pipeline operators.

    Natural Gas Pipeline Crisis Plans Kept From Public AP 2010

  • Likely to be completed after numerous oil pipelines from the middle east to Europe.

    China Planning to Connect High Speed Rail Lines To Europe | Inhabitat 2010

  • But, as Unocal and other oil firms, intrigued by the idea of building energy pipelines from the Caspian Sea across Afghanistan to Indian Ocean energy hubs like Gwadar, eventually found out, the Taliban were hardly an agent of stability.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • PHMSA's policy for natural gas pipelines is also at odds with its handling of spill plans prepared by oil pipeline operators.

    Natural Gas Pipeline Crisis Plans Kept From Public AP 2010

  • But, as Unocal and other oil firms, intrigued by the idea of building energy pipelines from the Caspian Sea across Afghanistan to Indian Ocean energy hubs like Gwadar, eventually found out, the Taliban were hardly an agent of stability.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • The document characterises the development oil pipelines from the Caspian region and Central Asia directly to the EU as "vital."

    We don't want to be divisive Helen 2006

  • I also had two good business-related phone conversations, which have resulted in pipelines for potential future work being opened.

    good things... suricattus 2004

  • As we are all aware by now, Judge Berger has been conducting, over the past three years, an inquiry into the feasibility and consequences of building pipelines from the shores of the Arctic Ocean, down through sections of the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, to tie in with existing pipelines that service the southern Canadian and United States markets.

    Northern Frontier—Northern Homeland 1977

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