1.   They embargoed oil shipments to the U.S..

2.   The deal was being financed by Saudi oil shipments, and the cash shortfall had resulted from weak oil prices.

3.   As the start of Tengiz oil shipments approaches, statistics are flowing freely, too.

4.   A delegation of high-ranking Yugoslav opposition leaders now visiting the United States has been pressing for American support for the heating oil shipments.

5.   But the ban on oil shipments to Yugoslavia that NATO has now authorized is trickier to enforce.

6.   In addition, NATO will plan an interdiction program for oil shipments bound for Montenegro, the port for its sister republic, Serbia.

7.   Iraq halted oil shipments to protest delays in approving contracts for the purchase of food and medicine with oil revenue.

8.   Iraq has urged other Arab nations to reduce oil shipments to the United States.

9.   Iraq suspended oil shipments in early December in order to negotiate a new plan to speed up delivery of humanitarian supplies.

10.   It might have been filled in and paved over then, but for a fuel company that needed to continue receiving oil shipments by barge.