1.   But do the large companies achieve low production costs because they are large, or are these companies large because they knew how to find and drill oil cheaply?

2.   Houston-based Pride provides rigs and other equipment and services used to drill oil and gas wells on land and in water.

3.   Lucas had drilled oil in Louisiana.

4.   Murkowski argued Monday that with current technology, oil could be drilled without harming the environment.

5.   A Turkish state oil company has won a U.N.-approved contract to drill oil in northern Iraq, the company announced Friday.

6.   Arco signed a contract Monday to drill oil and gas wells in a section of the South China Sea, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

7.   I support the existing moratorium on granting new leases to drill oil off the coasts of California and Florida.