1.   Bush got his start after graduate school in the oil fields of West Texas where he founded an exploration firm.

2.   Exploration firms dug fewer holes and scaled back on new storage facilities.

3.   In addition, shares of oil producers like Chevron, Exxon, Mobil and Texaco slipped, as did stocks of several oil exploration firms.

4.   A Saudi businessman whose U.S. assets were ordered frozen because of suspected terrorist links serves on the board of a small California-based diamond exploration firm.

5.   Bre-X Minerals was surfing a wave of speculation and gold fever that analysts say was almost bound to come crashing down on the Calgary exploration firm.

6.   Eligible companies include foreign oil and gas exploration firms.

7.   It has hired a respected independent firm to conduct the tests, something it and other exploration firms had balked at doing in the past.

8.   None of the other foreign exploration firms operating here has yet made a similar find.

9.   Shares in beleaguered gold exploration firm rise.

10.   Zubrin is the founder of Pioneer Astronautics, a Colorado-based space exploration research firm.