Even if such concerns are unwarranted, as the optimists have asserted, any oil bonanza could put Colombia on uncertain ground.

Economically, the 1970's oil bonanza drew Lebanon's fate closer to the Arab world.

That situation could perhaps be tolerated so long as Venezuela's oil bonanza continued.

"Then the main goal is to find a massive oil bonanza in Israel."

These offices are highly contested - Nigeria's federal system of government means that each office controls a piece of the country's oil bonanza.

The pipeline allowed an oil bonanza to take shape.

Bayelsa remains one of the poorest and least-developed states in the country, despite its oil bonanza.

Even with its oil bonanza, import needs forced Mexico into debts that are now beyond control.

Colombians know that standing between them and an oil bonanza are two battle-hardened guerrilla armies bent on sabotaging the nation's economy.

During the 1940s and 1950s an oil bonanza attracted foreign attention to Peru.