This session takes a look at some of the most high-profile pipeline projects in development around the world and looks at the challenges they face to make them more than pipe dreams. Issues abound, whether relating to matters of geopolitics, environmental consents, regulation and consenting (particularly the opposition of indigenous groups and local communities), financing or construction risks and, increasingly, there is a question of the societal licence of oil companies to build these pipelines in the first place against the backdrop of alternative energy options and communities suing over the costs of climate change.