Nowrooz

--Due to Kurdish flags, Syrian police open fire at a group of Kurds celebrating Nowrooz, their new year, killing at least one person.

Kurds Celebrating Nowrooz Shot at By Syrian Police for Raising Kurdish Flag

General manager of refining and Industrial Safety Committee acting chairman Nowrooz Faraz also gave an overview of the company's accomplishments last year.

To finance this stake, a consortium led by Japanese Petroleum Exploration (Japex) was set up with the specific aim of partnering Royal/Dutch Shell in the 1bn barrels Soroosh and Nowrooz oil fields.

The UAE and Iran signed a joint-venture agreement in the Shell oil-field facilities for development of Iran's Sirocco/ Nowrooz fields.

The French engineering group Technip announced at the end of July that it has been awarded and engineering and equipment supply contract in the context of the NPCC/Naft Sazeh Qeshm joint venture for the development of Iran's Soroosh and Nowrooz offshore oil fields.

Under a buyback contract signed in late 1999, Shell is developing the offshore Soroosh and Nowrooz oilfields west of Kharg island.

In 1999, Shell defied a US sanctions threat to sign an estimated $800mln (u492mln) deal with Iran to develop two offshore oil fields in the Persian Gulf known as Soroosh and Nowrooz.

In 1999, Shell defied a US sanctions threat to sign an estimated $800mln (Au492mln) deal with Iran to develop two offshore oil fields in the Persian Gulf known as Soroosh and Nowrooz.

Four riders - Elyas Mohammed Hassan, Mahmood Gholoom Nowrooz, Hussain Mohammed Dadulla and Ammar Mohammed - will come from Tashan.

They included Kate Addison on Persy, Lucy Lunt-Bell on Dakota, Taghrid Dawani on Arctic Rose, Hebe Lanyon on Mandella, Yaqoob Mohammed on Sea Biscuit, Mahmood Nowrooz on School Spirit, Talib Al Alawi on Arabian Dunes and Elyas Hussain on Ghayth.

The laboratory employees have once again excelled in the international arena with their laboratory skills and expertise, said Bapco refining general manager Nowrooz Faraz.