51.   Oswald plays down any possibility of a blowout and says images of an oil boom in Windsor are overstated.

52.   Sharidah said only a small amount of diesel had been channelled into the plant due to the oil boom near the intake point.

53.   Since an oil boom more than two decades ago, hundreds of thousands of poor Asian workers have flocked to this small Gulf country in search of jobs.

54.   The gold diggers, like the rest of Venezuela that was experiencing an oil boom, neglected to save for a rainy day.

55.   The oil boom.

56.   The oil boom transformed Kuwait from a desert backwater that relied on pearl diving in the Persian Gulf into a modern financial powerhouse.

57.   The oil boom that followed independence attracted hundreds of thousands of Arab and Asian workers who settled in the welfare state.

58.   The race to stake new claims has given an economic boost to coastal cities hit hard when the last Gulf oil boom ended.

59.   They had put up an oil boom to keep the sludge out, but high winds caused the slick to drift into the bay.

60.   Unemployment has become a central problem in many Gulf states since the end of the oil boom years over the past decade.