But we have a plan to invest over a billion dollars in the next year to build a pipeline linking the Black Sea with the Adriatic Sea.

Also, a pipeline linking Russia's Far North with the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk is to begin pumping in December.

In September, the sub-sea pipeline, linking the Sable Island fields to Goldboro gas plant 225 km (140 mi) away, was completed.

In 1986 plans had been made to construct a 105-kilometer pipeline linking an offshore well with the Chinese mainland via Hainan Islands.

The repairs included fixing two underwater pipelines linking it to shore that had been crushed by a drifting anchor.

A small pipeline linking Mosol in Iraq to Batman in Turkey is currently being discussed.

The project, which was formally inaugurated last week, is a Russian-led consortium to build a pipeline linking Russia and Germany.

Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003 with the completion of a $4bn pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast.

Several important pipelines linking oil fields and refineries were damaged during the war.

A pipeline linking the port of Thessaloniki with the OKTA oil refinery outside Skopje began full operations in September.