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                                                                      EXHIBIT 21


             AMERADA HESS CORPORATION AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARIES

                         SUBSIDIARIES OF THE REGISTRANT


                                                            Organized under
Name of Subsidiary                                            the laws of
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A.H. Shipping Guaranty Corporation ........................ Delaware

Amerada Hess (Denmark) A/S ................................ Denmark

Amerada Hess Limited ...................................... United Kingdom

Amerada Hess Norge A/S .................................... Norway

Amerada Hess (Port Reading) Corporation ................... Delaware

Amerada Hess Production Gabon ............................. Gabon

Amerada Hess Shipping Corporation ......................... Liberia

Hess Energy Trading Company, LLC .......................... Delaware

Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp. ............................. U.S. Virgin Islands

Jamestown Insurance Company Limited ....................... Bermuda

Tioga Gas Plant, Inc. ..................................... Delaware

Tug New York Company ...................................... Delaware

Other subsidiaries (names omitted because such unnamed subsidiaries, considered
in the aggregate as a single subsidiary, would not constitute a significant
subsidiary)

Each of the foregoing subsidiaries conducts business under the name listed, and
is 100% owned by the Registrant, except for Amerada Hess Production Gabon,
which is 55% owned by the Registrant, and Hess Energy Trading Company, LLC,
which is a trading company that is a joint venture between the Registrant and
unrelated parties.