The central Government has spent little on services here, a foreign oil executive said.

Her husband was an oil executive, who years later became his agent.

According to one Western oil executive, building the whole chain can take 40 to 42 months.

It could be worse, one Western oil executive based here observed.

So, again, the world's oil executives must wait out a crisis.

Then he had developed his screening program for potential oil executives.

Oil executives say companies can now get at least 35 percent of production revenues.

"They're not very good at economics," a senior Western oil executive said.

Hannah's father was an oil executive working for Shell in the 1960s and 1970s.

Still, the reality is that today's rebels are his former oil executives.