According to Kuwait, the output from the models indicates oil contamination to 4.7 square kilometres of shoreline habitat, at varying degrees of severity.

Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., Economic and Oil Indicators, 1989-1998.

However, in the reconstructed loss calculation, there is no production yield loss indicated for lubricating oils.

Despite a decline of 22.4 per cent, estimates indicate that oil revenue in the region in 2001 amounted to the second highest annual total since 1982.

There is no indication that the oil lakes are attributable to causes other than the invasion and occupation.

Estimates indicate that the region's oil revenues soared, totalling $163 billion in 2000.

That is usually an indication that there is oil in the ground.

Iran states that its analyses and field observations provide a strong indication that oil originating from the oil spills resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait reached the coast of Iran.

The evidence in the scientific literature indicates that extensive oil pollution occurred along Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf coastline and that the contamination persists in many areas.

Major revision of recent data on the Hg content in crude oil indicates the concentration range from 0.01 to 0.5 ppm.