North Sea


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an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia

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Then said the first soldier, 'In the North Sea lies a dead sea- cat; that shall be the roast meat.'
"It lasted all down the North Sea, all down Channel; and it lasted till we were three hundred miles or so to the westward of the Lizards: then the wind went round to the sou'west and began to pipe up.
Dr Hood paced the length of his string of apartments, bounded-- as the boys' geographies say--on the east by the North Sea and on the west by the serried ranks of his sociological and criminologist library.
(as in the case of the glaciers) we suppose them to have taken place at corresponding distances in Europe: -- then would the land from the North Sea to the Mediterranean have been violently shaken, and at the same instant of time a large tract of the eastern coast of England would have been permanently elevated, together with some outlying islands, -- a train of volcanos on the coast of Holland would have burst forth in action, and an eruption taken place at the bottom of the sea, near the northern extremity of Ireland -- and lastly, the ancient vents of Auvergne, Cantal, and Mont d'Or would each have sent up to the sky a dark column of smoke, and have long remained in fierce action.
If so we are now off in the North Sea, and only God can guide us in the fog, which seems to move with us, and God seems to have deserted us.
It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea, for the man, Mr.
The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. I lived in perpetual fright at that time, and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do with myself, or when I should hear from him next; but as long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience."
Specialist drilling waste management company TWMA said yesterday it had secured North Sea contracts worth PS20 million during the first eight months of 2019.
Exxon Mobil (XOM) is eyeing an exit from the British North Sea after more than 50 years in the oil and gas basin, Reuters' Ron Bousso reports.
Oman's Petrogas and Norway-based private equity investor HitecVision have bought a portfolio of French oil giant Total's North Sea assets in a US$635mn deal.
LONDON (Alliance News) - Aberdeen-based Ithaca Energy Ltd has acquired ten producing fields from Chevron Corp in the North Sea, it said Wednesday.
BP has been granted approval to develop the Alligin field in the North Sea, targeting 20 million barrels of oil equivalent.
BP's plans for a North Sea development that could produce 30million barrels of oil has been given the green light.
International Resource News-September 25, 2018--ArcLight Capital Partners completes sale of North Sea Midstream Partners to wholly-owned subsidiary of Kuwait Investment Authority
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