Environmentalists opposing the pipeline refer, with equal deftness, to dirty oil.

The BTC is designed to transport up to 50 million tons of crude oil annually and carries oil from the Caspian Sea oilfields to global markets.

Moreover, with oil prices back above 100 per barrel, the Gulf states are enjoying a bonanza.

Azerbaijan also promotes global energy security through development of the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Baku Tbilisi Erzurum gas pipeline, as well as through the Baku Tbilisi Akhalkalaki Kars railroad project.

Haifa was the country's largest deep water port, The head of the spur line to the Hejaz railway, was the oil terminal for the Mosul Haifa pipe line (which the Iraqi Government had closed in April) and home to the Consolidated Refineries oil refinery.

The pipeline brought oil from the east side of the Andes to the coast, making Ecuador South America's second largest oil exporter.

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The pipeline is expected to carry crude oil from fields in the Caspian Sea off Baku to Tbilisi in Georgia, and to the Mediterranean terminal in Ceyhan, Turkey. The pipeline has a capacity of 10 million barrels.

The collateral damaged produced by attacks against oil pipeline infrastructure by rebel guerrillas in the Colombian armed conflict has produced long term damage to the environment.

With oil prices back above 100 a barrel this summer and still high money is once again being transferred to the oil exporting countries.

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The killing so angered Shabwani's tribesmen that in the subsequent weeks, they fought heavily with government security forces, attacking a major oil pipeline in Maarib twice.

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