21.   The biggest employer was the oil sector, and that has all but disappeared.

22.   The country, suffering from a shortage of hard currency, has been wooing international companies and the Iranian private sector to invest in the oil sector.

23.   The government has agreed to work with the International Monetary Fund on economic reforms and to allow limited auditing of the government-controlled oil sector.

24.   This is the leading manufacturer of drill pipe in Mexico, and the expanding oil service sector is scrambling for supplies, he says.

25.   Yet the lure of high reserves continues to overshadow security and tax concerns in the oil sector as well.

26.   Prominent on the fast-track privatisation programme are the energy, transportation and oil sectors.

27.   A drop in crude oil prices also hit the oil sector.

28.   According to Iranian officials, Habibi is expected to discuss ways of broadening cooperation with Greece in the oil sector.

29.   Although those supporting the soyaben oil sector may be a contributing factor, Malaysians who market palm oil are primarily to blame for this phenomenon.

30.   Azevedo was attending an international seminar in Luanda on the Angolan oil sector.