1.   Among the latest companies to offer their coal interests for sale are Chevron, the oil industry giant, and Cyprus Amax Minerals, a copper mining company.

2.   As the oil giants shifted production abroad, they left independents to drill five of every six new wells, producing half the crude in the continental United States.

3.   Before the Texaco tapes surfaced, the discrimination case against the oil company giant looked like an uphill climb.

4.   BP, the British-American oil giant managing the pipeline project, has already devoted months of study to the historic and environmental aspects of the proposed pipeline.

5.   A gas deal signed this summer will reopen the country to foreign oil companies despite fierce opposition from the domestic oil giant, Aramco.

6.   But critics say that Cheney, a former chief executive of the Halliburton Co., the oil services giant, needs to look skeptically at such claims.

7.   But investigations into corruption at Elf, which was acquired last year by the other French oil giant, TotalFina, continue.

8.   But the rig managers might have been reacting to a new tone at the oil giant.

9.   By contrast, Browne has mapped out a plan of action for his multi-national oil giant that may be risky.

10.   Cheney resigned as CEO of Halliburton Co., the Dallas oil services giant, when he joined the Bush ticket.