A long pipe, typically underground, for conveying oil over long distances.
at least two oil pipelines were sabotaged
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Some warring tribal leaders have threatened to blow up existing oil pipelines owned by Chevron and Shell.
An accident in Saudi Arabia led to the severing of an oil pipeline.
Virtually all of the recent political machinations in the region can be best understood through the prism of oil pipeline politics.
Rock legends are usually known for hemorrhaging money on cocaine or being glad-handed into harebrained oil pipeline investments.
Their unit was supposed to be guarding the oil pipeline from Baghdad to Haifa.
They set the stage for construction of a massive oil pipeline through Afghanistan.
He happened to be involved in setting up an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea that would run through Afghanistan.
Someone who simply wants to destroy an oil pipeline to me is just not sufficiently important as a villain.
It is increasing its military presence in some of the former nations of the old Soviet Union as a means of safeguarding potential future oil pipeline routes.
It's one of a dozen native Alaskan companies formed to ease construction of the oil pipeline.