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AFGHANISTAN: Oil Execs Revive Pipeline From Hell

Laptop Battery It has been called the pipeline from hell, to hell, through hell. It's a 1,270-kilometer conduit, 1.2 meters in diameter, that would snake across Afghanistan to carry natural gas from eastern Turkmenistan--with 700 billion cubic meters of proven reserves--to energy-hungry Pakistan and beyond. Unocal of the U.S. and Bridas Petroleum of Argentina vied for the $1.9 billion project in the 1990s. Now, with the collapse of the Taliban, oil executives are suddenly talking again about building it.

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Thinkpad "It is absolutely essential that the U.S. make the pipeline the centerpiece of rebuilding Afghanistan," says S. Rob Sobhani, a professor of foreign relations at Georgetown University and the head of Caspian Energy Consulting. The State Department thinks it's a great idea, too. Routing the gas through Iran would be avoided, and Central Asian republics wouldn't have to ship through Russian pipelines.

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Microsoft But like everything else in Afghanistan, the unbuilt pipeline is already scorched by history. Bridas made a stab at construction in the 1990s, says Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani financial journalist who recalls bumping into Carlos Bulgheroni, Bridas' chairman, leaving a meeting with Taliban leaders in Kandahar in early 1997. Later that year Unocal formed a consortium to build the pipeline. (Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea but lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, Texas, and taking them on a side trip to the NASA Space Center.

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Laptop Computers It gets uglier. The Taliban lusted after the $25 million a year in would-be pipeline royalties. Such a prize leads William O. Beeman, a professor at Brown University who's an authority on Central Asia, to conclude that Osama bin Laden's bombings in 1998 of U.S. embassies in Africa were designed to nip the budding relationship between the Taliban and Western interests. "Bin Laden didn't want the Taliban to be in bed with the U.S.," he says. "It would have made his position untenable."

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Laptop Computer A spokeswoman for Unocal insists that the company never considered building the pipeline under an illegitimate regime and is no longer interested in the region.

Alashankou portion of an oil pipeline to China that is planned to extend from the country's Caspian coast eastward to the Chinese border in future construction.

Desktop Computer Still, the potential bounty of delivering $700 million or so of gas each year is bound to tempt someone, even if Afghanistan's new interim government and old warlords don't bury the scimitar.

Notebooks At least whoever picks up the challenge needn't worry about the Afghans' blowing the thing up. Unocal studied the problem extensively and concluded that, with the exception of Colombia, rebels in war-torn countries don't destroy key elements of the economic infrastructure. That's true even in Afghanistan, where a series of dams and hydroelectric plants built with American support in the 1950s and 1960s have survived two decades of almost constant warfare.

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