1.   Although the field is run by Occidental and Royal Dutch Shell Group, the Colombian state petroleum company Ecopetrol is a partner in their operations.

2.   He is loath to say Algeria will privatize Sonatrach, though he oversaw the privatization of state petroleum concerns in Argentina and Peru.

3.   In a show of solidarity, public health workers, state-employed miners and some employees of the state petroleum company have joined the strike.

4.   So in natural gas, the winning American group will encounter no competition from Petroleos Mexicanos SA, the state petroleum monopoly.

5.   The Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline was attacked on Friday, said Colombian state petroleum company Cia. Colombiana de Petroleos, known as Ecopetrol.

6.   A strike Tuesday called by the Bolivian Workers Confederation protesting the privatization of the state petroleum company has shut down refineries, public hospitals and schools.

7.   But the powerful state petroleum corporation, which owns the pipeline, reportedly wants officials to charge whoever caused the leak.

8.   Edorah Agbah, a state petroleum company spokesman, blamed the tragedy on villagers who, he said, cut open the pipe.

9.   Gunnar Berge, head of the state petroleum directorate, said last month that a sense of panic seemed to be spreading throughout the national oil industry.

10.   Local officials have promised there would be no arrests, but the powerful state petroleum corporation has reportedly demanded that whoever cracked open the pipeline be prosecuted.