The LNG would then be carried by an undersea pipeline to the Great Lakes site where it would be converted back to natural gas and sent into the UK gas network.

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And building a pipeline to Turkey from Baku would be child's play compared with the Russian project, which involves laying the deepest undersea pipeline in the world, through the corrosive sludge of the Black Sea bed.

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Next up: new optical-switching technology, an undersea fiber pipeline for international traffic and overseas acquisitions.

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