These same partners invested heavily in Neil Bush's oil ventures.

While he worked to regain control of the Albertan, Bell also continued to invest in oil ventures.

So a great deal of this money is aimed at oil ventures, with the result that foreign investors can find themselves in the locals' cross hairs.

The 80 percent going to Kazakhstan is high on the international scale of payments to governments in oil ventures with foreign companies.

This discouraged the major banks and oil companies from investing in Arabian oil ventures.

On a salary that ranged from $75 to $90 a month, he saved money and invested in oil ventures.

The sanctions do not cover the foreign parent companies that backed the oil venture.

But several years later, the wells would run dry and the oil venture finally ended in 1925.

The oil venture is still under investigation by the House ethics committee.

One explanation of the term is that it derived from wildcat banking and came to be applied to risky oil ventures.