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May 23rd, 2005:

Craig Group secures £20m Shell North Sea contract

THE HERALD (SCOTLAND): Craig Group secures £20m Shell North Sea contract

MARK WILLIAMSON May 23 2005

CRAIG Group has won a contract to supply Shell installations in the North Sea that could be worth as much as £20m as the oil and gas services firm continues to benefit from strong activity levels in its backyard.

Aberdeen-headquartered Craig’s International Supplies subsidiary has been appointed to supply all the oil giant’s rigs in the North Sea and some onshore plants, including the St Fergus terminal, with oilfield consumables like drilling accessories for five years. read more

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Diesel dreams burn brightly in tiny Qatar

Rocky Mountain News: Diesel dreams burn brightly in tiny Qatar

By Jim Krane, Associated Press

May 23, 2005

RAS LAFFAN INDUSTRIAL CITY, Qatar – The rat’s nest of pipes and columns snaking across the desert harbors a secret process that will use cobalt to turn natural gas into a powerful, clean-burning diesel fuel.

By next year, rulers of this tiny desert sheikdom hope, these gas-to-liquid reactors under construction will bring in billions of dollars while clearing big city smog belched by trucks and buses.

Petroleum experts who have sniffed vials of gin-clear GTL diesel speak of it with reverence. read more

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Protesters shut Shell office in Warri

BBC Monitoring Service: Nigeria

Posted 23 May 2005

Text of report report by Chido Okafor entitled “Protesters shut Shell office in Warri” published by Nigerian newspaper The Guardian website on 21 May

Protesters numbering about 1,000 yesterday afternoon paralysed operations at the Warri office of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), forcing the firm to close all its entry points, apparently scared the protest would turn violent.

The protesters who are indigenes of the firm’s over 50 host communities in Delta State claim the oil giant had relocated the company’s ” strategic” departments from Warri to Port Harcourt, in Rivers State. read more

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