1.   In effect, the Chancellor did what many oil executives have urged him to do for years when he decided to abolish petroleum revenue tax on future projects.

2.   Among them were oil executives, their wives and a Honolulu couple.

3.   An oil executive in the negotiations said the agreements reflected positive steps.

4.   An oil company executive involved in making the pipeline decision said that by building a pipeline to Georgia, the companies would be responding to U.S. concerns.

5.   And limits on gifts had yet to be instituted when Dole made his speech to the oil company executives.

6.   And Kuwait oil executives are negotiating to build refineries and gas stations in Asia and Europe and are opening new offices in Houston.

7.   And when the oil executives held a general discussion of ideas for exploration and production, the Saudis nodded in agreement.

8.   As some consumers prepare to boycott gasoline stations Friday to protest high prices, oil company executives told a state legislative hearing Wednesday prices are unlikely to fall soon.

9.   Being married to an oil company executive, she admits, made the leap financially easier.

10.   Benedict I. Lubell, a retired oil executive and a patron of the arts in Tulsa, Okla., died Friday at his home in Milwaukee.