I wonder how the Y2K compliance work is going for our largest oil suppliers?

-1- Saudi Arabia -2- Venezuela -3- Mexico -4- Canada -5- Nigeria -6- Angola -7- Iraq

------------ Oil Industry's Woes Get Senate Panel Hearing Thursday By Tom Dogget

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Saudi Arabia is the largest oil supplier to the United States, followed by Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Nigeria and Angola.

[snip ... Interesting comment about oil from Iraq]

A lot of that oil is coming from Iraq, which has become a major supplier of oil to the U.S. market. In the first 11 months of 1998, Iraq shipped 106.93 million barrels of oil (320,000 barrels a day) to the United States, making Iraq the seventh-biggest U.S. crude supplier during the period, according to the Department of Energy.

Murkowski is very critical of U.S. oil purchases from Iraq, and has criticized the Clinton administration for seeking to lift the ceiling on the amount of oil Iraq is allowed to sell under a special United Nations oil-for-food program. That program, which began in December 1996, is an exemption to the oil embargo imposed on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in August 1990, which led to the Gulf War.

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-- Anonymous, January 28, 1999