A Nord Stream spokesman has stated that only one sunken ship is in the vicinity of the planned pipeline and added that it wouldn't be disturbed.

Perhaps most pleased by Mr. Fisher's offer were his neighbors, who were furious when the planned pipeline was switched across the road to their yards.

Along with helping to meet Turkey's growing energy demands, the gas deal is expected to provide a boost to the planned pipeline to carry oil from Azerbaijan to Turkey through Georgia.

If its economy revives, North Korea could also buy Russian oil, which is expected to come to a maritime terminus near this port city as part of a planned pipeline from the eastern Siberian reserves.

The planned pipeline is part of a grid of cross-border gas connections that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, envisions as a way to tie its economies more closely together.

And a planned pipeline from Germany is taking longer than many expected.

Chauvco will also separately spin off some properties in Gabon and its stake in a planned pipeline from Alberta to the United States, which together represent less than 5 percent of the company's value, Pioneer executives said.

The planned pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea will reduce this dependence.

This being so, how does the European Commission intend to encourage and assist research to locate and exploit these energy sources which can, in any case, be transported more easily to the European Union and better than any other planned pipeline?

This planned pipeline will connect Iran's South Pars gas field with Turkey and then with European markets.