11.   At home the administration has intensified its efforts to increase support for developing the oil reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

12.   Azerbaijan wants to develop its oil reserves, but foreign companies are reluctant to invest or build vulnerable pipelines in an unstable region.

13.   Between them they may find a way back into the country with by far the largest oil reserves in the world.

14.   Bill Clinton was tapping the strategic oil reserve so people would not pay too much for heating oil.

15.   A country with the second-largest estimated oil reserves in the world is sooner or later going to have to be put back on its feet.

16.   A cynic might argue that the different reactions stem from the absence of great oil reserves in Bosnia.

17.   A Department of Energy spokesman said to his knowledge the two did not discuss the American strategic oil reserves in particular.

18.   But foreign companies are finding more oil reserves in Sudan, and diplomats argue that this wealth can be used as a bargaining tool to end the war.

19.   But experts warn that oil reserves are playing out.

20.   But it is also about oil, with the Khartoum government seeking to profit from oil reserves in the south that are ringed by the rebels.