He had been under house arrest after a private prosecution by two local businessmen in a dispute over a £1.5 million oil deal.

He thinks there was some hanky-panky between you and Ed over an oil deal.

"This was your finest script yet, even better than the oil deal."

In addition, last month he signed a $9.5 billion oil deal with China.

I didn't want it to get around that I'd been trimmed in an oil deal.

However, the Sudanese government has already rejected the notion of an oil deal.

Why doesn't he start that oil deal, so that I can begin to block him?

And without the money the oil deal would bring, can the nation ever stand alone?

Norway has suspended an oil deal, Canada a credit line.

We signed an oil deal at the same time.