1.   The threat of war has been enough to unsettle international oil traders.

2.   Others, such as oil cargo traders, have no central body of any kind, but operate on a strictly bilateral basis.

3.   And her husband, Leonid, an oil trader connected to Kremlin-favored oil companies, was reportedly linked to foreign bank accounts.

4.   Another central figure has been a Dutch oil trader, John Duess, whose unusual influence in Kazakhstan has riled U.S. officials and Western business leaders.

5.   As so often in the past, oil prices and the internal workings of OPEC have confounded forecasters and oil traders for the last few months.

6.   A U.N. spokesman in New York would not comment on speculation among oil traders that the plan will be approved by next week.

7.   But analysts said Iraq has suggested that it plans to increase exports, and that oil traders have converged on Vienna to work out export deals with the Iraqis.

8.   But oil traders closely follow, tanker by tanker, how much oil is being shipped, and that information should have a great effect on prices.

9.   Development of the resolution has been monitored closely by oil traders because last week the Iraqi government threatened to cease cooperating with the U.N. if new sanctions are imposed.

10.   Dyachenko is an oil trader.