1.   People braced for a new oil boom.

2.   Since our last visit to Aberdeen, which had been before the oil boom, the port had been transformed.

3.   A National Rivers Authority spokesman said oil booms across the River Tees at Barnard Castle and at tributary further upstream would probably be removed today.

4.   An oil boom lured workers from Oklahoma and Texas, and several townspeople recalled that many were as crude as the fuel they drilled for.

5.   Anchorage became a city of well-paid white collar workers, many of them serving the oil boom.

6.   Armenian President Robert Kocharian, however, scoffed at the suggestion that failure to join the oil boom would consign his country to isolation or poverty.

7.   Azerbaijan has already lived through one oil boom.

8.   Against the backdrop of this history, Venezuelans will probably love him forever if he can spend the proceeds of the current oil boom honestly and efficiently.

9.   But it is not just technology that makes this oil boom different from the last one.

10.   But the approaching oil boom of Central Asia has raised some basic questions more starkly than before.