Other companies are considering leaving or scaling back their investment, oil consultants and company officials say.

"Oil companies sometimes don't even know who they should be negotiating with over there," asserted one oil consultant.

In return, he was permitted in his later years to work as an oil consultant.

Mr. Bent, who is now an oil consultant, lives in Houston with his wife and four young children.

Mr. Scholz, the Chilean oil consultant, recalled the farewell.

Her father, an oil consultant, was the vice president of international government affairs for Conoco Inc. in Wilmington, Del.

Rob Sobhani, an American oil consultant, has joined us at our table.

His occupation is listed as an offshore oil consultant from Great Britain.

Mr. Boemio is an oil consultant in Westport.

A senior oil consultant has died after a diving accident in Malta.