11.   The government awards all oil concessions.

12.   He said the government would soon negotiate with more companies for new oil concessions but he gave no further details.

13.   Individual investors actively bought shares of Cosmo Oil Co. on a press report that the Japanese company would be granted an oil mining concession by the United Arab Emirates.

14.   Beijing and Hanoi have both granted oil concessions to foreign oil firms in areas where they hold overlapping claims.

15.   China launched another broadside at Vietnam on Wednesday for granting oil exploration concessions to foreign companies in disputed areas of the South China Sea.

16.   Total, one of the biggest oil firms in the world, has large oil concessions in the UAE and other countries in the Middle East.

17.   While only one US firm has an oil concession in Syria, several buy Syrian crude oil.

18.   Many have already applied to set up power generation plants, or are seeking oil exploration concessions.

19.   Murayama began his tour in Saudi Arabia, where King Fahd pledged to renew a Japanese oil concession and asked the premier to consider a joint venture refinery.

20.   Saudi Arabia, linked to Bahrain via a bridge over the Gulf, plans to grant an oil concession to Bahrain.