It's a real story, but it's ONLY about oil.
The title is meant, as far as I can see, to link to earlier GAS stories, because these take special resonance in the UK these days.
A pipeline is a pipeline, after all. Oil, gas, what's the difference? Most people don't KNOW that there is a difference.
The FT should know better. This is either wilful manipulation or massive incompetence. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Or maybe my six months working in the oil industry made me more aware of the differences between different things that go in pipelines.