1.   Third, it is time to privatize Pemex, the inefficient state oil company.

2.   YPF was the state oil company in Argentina.

3.   The HYDRO-CONGO state oil company would nevertheless continue to exploit oil reserves, occasionally with the participation of foreign companies.

4.   Grossbancher, an executive with the French company Bouygues Offshore, had been working with the Angolan state oil company Sonangol.

5.   The changes paved the way for the privatization of the state oil company Yacimientos Petrolferos Fiscales Sociedad del Estado.

6.   Among those to strike is Union Sindical Obrera, known as USO, which represents workers at state oil company Ecopetrol.

7.   American officials accuse Chavez of meddling with the historically independent state oil company, providing haven to Colombian guerrillas and bailing out Cuba with preferential rates on oil.

8.   Both are run by units of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA.

9.   Both men play the same nationalist tune, Fox having hastily retreated from a proposal to privatize Pemex, the creaking state oil monopoly.