1.   Veba, the large German energy concern, will conduct trials at the Schweldt oil refinery.

2.   Andersen has conceded that Enron was one of its biggest and most desirable clients, something that would give pause to any auditor thinking about challenging the energy concern.

3.   Companies likely to bid for Eastern include Australian agriculture and energy concern Wesfarmers Ltd.

4.   Degussa is the specialty chemicals group that is controlled by the German energy concern E.ON, which itself was created last year by the merger of Veba and RWE.

5.   Engineers with earnest faces and trim haircuts ply the halls of this diversified energy concern.

6.   He was also a director of the energy concern Coastal Corp., based in Houston.

7.   Nor did he mention the Enron Corp., the collapsing energy concern once run by his biggest political supporter, Kenneth L. Lay.

8.   The acquisition would make FirstEnergy the sixth-largest energy concern in the United States, based on customers served.

9.   The losses from lending to Enron, the troubled energy concern, came as no surprise, Thompson said.

10.   The MIDOR contract was the second announcement of an agreement between Israelis and a foreign energy concern this week.