11.   At one drilling site on Thursday, two oil workers were killed when fighting broke out between government supporters and opposition party members.

12.   At the time of his injury, Robison was an oil worker permanently assigned to a drilling rig mounted on a barge in the Gulf of Mexico.

13.   A State Department official confirmed that the Ecuadorean oil worker was quickly released by the rebels.

14.   After flying for two years in Canada for the government, Green went to Colombia and ferried oil workers around by helicopter.

15.   After hours of hanging in the air, he was raised back onto the rig by oil workers.

16.   After the war, he turned his skill into a career, ferrying patients to hospitals or flying oil workers out to the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

17.   Albright also urged the Pakistanis to find those responsible for the killing of four American oil workers and their Pakistani driver last week in Karachi.

18.   British oil workers played the game in Abadan, and American and British missionaries taught the game at their schools.

19.   But Ecuadorean and Colombian officials said they could not be sure who had kidnapped the oil workers, who included five Americans.

20.   But the Texas case is a civil action, and the oil workers are seeking not criminal convictions but more money.