11.   Channels leading to oil terminals tucked between Staten Island and New Jersey have grown steadily shallower year after year.

12.   Crude oil and gasoline surged on concern that a strike at an oil export terminal in Nigeria could disrupt exports from the fifth-largest supplier to the U.S.

13.   Multiplied by millions of motorists, that precaution drained oil terminals, tank farms and refineries of surpluses that could have eased the pain.

14.   On the opposite shore, there is a constant flow of modern ships to oil terminals and container piers.

15.   Prices were also helped by the closing of oil export terminals in Mexico because of bad weather.

16.   The cutter carved a channel and the barge was slowly nudged alongside an oil terminal.

17.   Yet Iraq has already announced that its oil terminals at the head of the gulf are ready to receive tankers.

18.   Rasheed visited the Turkish oil terminal at the Mediterranean town of Yumurtalik upon his arrival Monday.

19.   A Turkish official at the Ceyhan oil terminal confirmed the Iraqi oil flow had resumed.

20.   Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., the company that runs the oil terminal in Valdez, provided cleanup equipment.