A “Weak prospects for a significantpick-upin the medium term have raised questions about…” (lines 4-3) – [drop].
B “Thedrying upof international financing,” (line 7) – [growth].
C “The revised plan for 2009-13 is based on an average oil price of US$42/b andcalls forinvestments of around US$174.4bn,” (lines 14-17) – [demands].
D “private operators sell the oil they producein exchange fora relatively low government take of between 5% and 10%.” (lines 66-68) – [instead of].
E “A more dramatic approach under consideration is toturnconcession contractsintoproduction-sharing agreements with Petrobras.” (lines 71-73) – [submit…to].