Crude oil and petroleum products ended a volatile week with a quiet
                   Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

                   On the heels of a 35-cent decline Thursday, Nymex crude for June
                   delivery slid 10 cents to $15.09 a barrel Friday. The front-month May
                   gasoline contract settled at 50.1 cents a gallon, down 0.19 cent, while
                   May heating oil rose 0.06 cent to 42.9 cents a gallon. For the week, crude
                   prices dropped 37 cents, or 2.4%.

                                        Analysts attributed part the decline in futures
                                        to the cash market's precipitous fall on storage
                                        concerns.

                                        Cash prices for the benchmark West Texas
                                        Intermediate crude oil dipped nearly $2
                                        Thursday on speculation by oil shippers that
                                        storage space at Cushing, Okla., a key
                                        delivery point for crude, had filled up
                   following the expiration of the May futures contract on Tuesday. The
                   shippers indicated that facilities in Oklahoma were nearly full, forcing
                   sellers to lower their asking price in order to find alternative storage
                   locations.

                   Other bearish news emerged Wednesday with the American Petroleum
                   Institute's report on U.S. oil stocks showing an increase of 3.3 million
                   barrels during the week ended April 17, the highest inventory level since
                   March 1994.

                   Early in the day Friday, products lent some support to the complex.
                   Gasoline hit a high in the morning on news of refinery shut-downs,
                   particularly an announcement early in the day from Sun Co., which said it
                   would delay restarting a 68,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracker at its
                   307,000-barrel-a-day Philadelphia refinery.