21.   Largest companies are the state owned oil companies Statoil and semi-state Norsk Hydro.

22.   Oil companies waiting for green light to develop Iraq.

23.   The IMF has said that the government has not put enough pressure on the biggest debtors, big oil companies, to pay taxes.

24.   Two more Greenpeace activists Tuesday boarded the giant floating oil storage platform that the Shell oil company, despite international protests, plans to ditch in the Atlantic.

25.   Unions fear service the oil companies, which are owned by the oil companies, will not give station operators a share of the profits on non-oil products.

26.   The protesters were demanding that the state oil company Pemex pay compensation for the environmental damage caused by its operations.

27.   Shareholders at Texaco Inc. and Unocal Corp. have introduced similar resolutions urging the two US oil companies to cease operations in Burma.