As a result, the agency said, oil continued gushing into the flooding river for almost an hour after the break was noticed by pipeline controllers in Houston.
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And a plan to start pumping Russian oil this year through a disused Israeli pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea would both ensure Israel's oil supply and help Russia break the Arab states' near-monopoly on selling oil to Asia.