Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ebe ọ bụ na ọkpọkọ ahụ ga-agafe Afghanistan, ọ dị mkpa ịrụ ọrụ na Taliban. Onye nnọchi anya US na Pakistan, Robert Oakley, hapụrụ ọkwa ya ma were ya n'ọrụ site na CentGas na 1997. Na Jenụwarị 1998, ndị Taliban, na-ahọrọ CentGas karịa ndị na-asọmpi Argentine Bridas Corporation, bịanyere aka na nkwekọrịta nke kwere ka ọrụ a chọrọ ịga n'ihu. Na June 1998, Gazprom nke Russia hapụrụ òkè 10% ya na ọrụ ahụ. N'August 7 afọ 1998,
A tụrụ bọmbụ n'ụlọ ọrụ ndị nnọchianya mba Amerịka na Nairobi nakwa na Dar es Salaam. United States kwuru na Osama bin Laden nọ n'azụ mwakpo ndị ahụ, na mkparịta ụka pipeline niile kwụsịrị, dịka onye ndu Taliban n'oge ahụ, Mullah Omar, kwupụtara na bin Laden nwere nkwado Taliban. Unocal wepụrụ na consortium na 8 Disemba 1998, na n'oge na-adịghị anya mgbe emechi ya itieutom ke Afghanistan na Pakistan.