111.   They include oil giants Sidanko, LUKoil and Yukos, the Sukhoi aircraft design bureau, and several shipping and port companies.

112.   This figure does not include Norwegian oil giant Statoil, which is jointly developing an offshore gas field with British Petroleum in the Nam Con Son basin.

113.   Two foreign oil giants are battling for the rights to build a natural gas pipline across war-torn Afghanistan, according to Taliban officials in Kabul Thursday.

114.   Last month, Greenpeace was forced to end a sit-in on the Brent Spar after the oil giant gained a court order banning the protest.

115.   Petronas president and chief executive Mohd Hassan Marican said the oil giant would intensify oil exploration overseas and focus on global ventures.

116.   Rasmussen said he was also in favor of a boycott of Shell products, referring to the oil giant which owns the platform.

117.   Qatar is a small oil-producing nation compared with the oil giants of the region.

118.   Several European oil giants were on Tuesday among companies threatened by US sanctions aimed at foreign companies that invest in petroleum projects in Iran and Libya.

119.   Saro-Wiwa, an Ogoni activist, had accused oil giant Shell of ravaging parts of the Niger delta by reckless drilling for oil.

120.   She also urged foreign investors to shun Burma, calling in particular for French oil giant Total to sever its ties with the junta.