1.   EASTMAN Ross, the Aberdeen-based oil industry supplier, has been taken over by Kingswood Fluid Power Group.

2.   Oil supplier re-deposits funds in Bank B in London.

3.   Bush talked not only of blackouts but of blackmail, raising the specter of a future in which the United States is increasingly vulnerable to foreign oil suppliers.

4.   But Venezuela is set for continuing instability, a headache for Washington given its strategic importance as an oil supplier.

5.   Higher efficiency standards and reduced demand are the only ways to make us less reliant on unstable foreign oil suppliers.

6.   Last year, Venezuela overtook Saudi Arabia and Mexico as the biggest oil supplier to the U.S. market.

7.   Oil and gas issues fell as major oil suppliers cut wholesale gasoline prices.

8.   Schenck Fuels Inc., a heating oil supplier based in East Hampton, N.Y., installs three types.

9.   Shortages resulting from the shutdowns in Texas have been exacerbated by limited exports from Venezuela, the biggest foreign oil supplier to the U.S.

10.   The cold comes when natural gas and heating oil suppliers normally have a few weeks left to build up inventories for the winter months.