21.   Independent refiners generally buy their oil on the open market, in contrast to integrated oil companies, which do their own exploring and producing.

22.   Instead, he bought oil at major refineries that are cheaper, Havian said.

23.   It extends a previous ban on the importation of Iranian goods to bar American companies from buying Iranian oil for resale on the world market.

24.   Japan and other energy importers need dollars to buy oil.

25.   Japan has already announced it will not join the United States in refusing to buy oil from Iran.

26.   Many refiners have been running down their stockpiles in hopes of being able to buy cheaper oil once Iraq and the U.N. strike a deal.

27.   On one level, it is about the process of determining how much oil was in the tanks of producers the company bought oil from.

28.   Recently, two Thais and a Singaporean were charged in a court in California with trying to buy Iraqi oil, apparently for shipment to Southeast Asia.

29.   Rwanda has to buy oil through the port of Mombasa, Kenya, and pay a succession of oil importers.

30.   Sitting in his office overlooking an airshaft, he said he was negotiating with several concerns to buy the oil, including BP Amoco, which the multinational confirmed.