1.   Their company has discovered new oil deposits below the ocean floor.

2.   Anadarko will drill in the Zula block, where two wells have shown indications of oil deposits.

3.   Another major appeal has been the prospect of finding huge oil deposits.

4.   Atlantic Richfield Co. remains bullish on finding new oil deposits in Alaska despite suffering two big drilling setbacks in as many years.

5.   Croatia had threatened to retake the area, which has oil deposits and some farming area, by force.

6.   Customers delayed purchasing some of its marine seismic systems, which are used to find offshore oil deposits, because of problems in obtaining vessels, GeoScience said.

7.   De Menil was the daughter of Conrad Schlumberger who, with his brother, Marcel, developed a geophysical tool that determined the location of underground oil deposits.

8.   He was sent in to check out oil deposits.

9.   Heavy oil deposits usually indicate that a novice was tinkering.

10.   Jia said Exxon already abandoned another similar-sized block after another wildcat well found no commercial-sized oil deposits.