1.   For years, economists here and abroad had said that oil revenue, if properly invested, could for ever sustain this nation.

2.   Much would depend on how the oil revenue is split.

3.   Oil revenue has allowed the government to subsidize housing, gasoline and cars.

4.   The State Department won, but demanded that the oil revenue should be spent only on things like health and education.

5.   Tourism is secondary to oil revenues as a source of income.

6.   Until now the country has depended almost entirely on its oil revenue.

7.   The increase was made possible by the anticipated boost in oil export revenues from the new Rabi-Kounga oil field.

8.   Increased oil revenues as a result of the Gulf crisis were not sustained.

9.   UN officials emphasised that the resolutions, which gave Iraq no control over its oil revenues, were exceptional and did not signify the lifting of sanctions.

10.   THE North Sea gales which drove the oil tanker, Braer, aground on Shetland last month, were equally unkind to UK oil revenues.