1.   It was the Kuwaiti-flag Umm Casbah, carrying Kuwaiti oil to Britain for Shell.

2.   One ship was carrying oil belonging to Caltex.

3.   A renegade Chechen military commander on Wednesday reiterated his intention to blow up a pipeline carrying Caspian Sea oil across Russia to the Black Sea.

4.   A private jet carrying oil executives from Argentina and Chile crashed early Thursday near the Ecuadorean capital.

5.   A pipeline carrying oil from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, runs through Chechnya before reaching the Russian port of Novorossiisk on the Black Sea.

6.   Chechen police cracked down Thursday on thieves who tap into a pipeline carrying Caspian Sea oil through the breakaway republic to the rest of the world.

7.   Chechnya is crossed by a pipeline carrying oil from rich Caspian Sea fields to the rest of the world.

8.   For years, cargo ships and traditional Arabian dhows have violated U.N. sanctions by carrying Iraqi oil through Iranian waters to middlemen in Gulf states.

9.   German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping said ships suspected of carrying oil would be stopped and searched at harbor entry and turned back if necessary.

10.   It also prohibits shipping companies from EU nations from carrying oil to Yugoslav ports.