41.   Yelagin also said a tender for the right to extract oil in Chechnya is to be completed in the next few days.

42.   Iran wants oil extracted by the consortium to transit its territory, which the United States opposed while Russia wants it shipped to its Black Sea port at Novorossiisk.

43.   ADMA is among the first Middle East oil companies that have introduced the advanced horizontal drilling technique to extract more oil.

44.   Transport ministry officials began trying to extract oil from the bow on to prevent further leaks and erected oil fences around the structure Tuesday.

45.   Transport ministry officials said they began trying to extract oil from the bow on Tuesday to prevent further leakage.

46.   Last week Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma visited Baku and signed an agreement with Azerbaijan to pool efforts in extracting oil from the Caspian Sea and Black Sea.

47.   Latvia announced Tuesday a tender for licences to explore and extract oil in its territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.

48.   Oil is extracted from most of the Algerian fields by means of pressure within the fields and pumping is used for onmoy a few of them.

49.   Operations to extract oil from the bow were under way in the small fishing town.

50.   Salvage companies began extracting oil from the bow late Thursday afternoon and said they would work all night.