11.   He will meet his British counterpart Douglas Hurd on Thursday for talks on exploiting oil reserves surrounding the South Atlantic islands.

12.   Indonesia and Malaysia will soon sign a deal to exploit natural gas reserves on their sea border, an oil executive said Wednesday.

13.   Benbitour said his country needed capital to modernize production and fully exploit oil reserves.

14.   It said the agreements would enable Total to draw crude from the Nahr Umr oil field, while Elf-Aquitaine is to exploit reserves on Majnun Island.

15.   Moeller, which is a member of a consortium which exploits the reserves, said that these were record figures.

16.   Tehran wants oil reserves to be exploited jointly by companies in which each state has an interest.