$7.5m oilfield pump factory opens in Suhar
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Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has been supplied with the first ‘Made in Oman’ electric submersible pump (ESP) system for its oil operations from a factory in Suhar. The $7.5 million Borets Seven Seas & Co LLC facility was officially opened on Sunday under the auspices of Dr Ali bin Masoud al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry.
The facility will assemble and service ESPs which provide an efficient and reliable artificial-lift method for extracting moderate to high volumes of fluids from wellbores for use in oil and water wells. Borets Seven Seas contractors will also install, commission, test and maintain the equipment in the field.
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Gaming technology is tipped to be the next big winner for the Creative Industries sector. Photo / Getty Images
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Gaming technology is tipped to be the next big winner for the Creative Industries sector. Photo / Getty Images
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Calls for the Government to pump more funding into the creative sector - which already injects $17.5 billion to the country s GDP and supports 131,000 jobs - could have big spinoffs for the Bay.
Heavyweights in the creative sector, which encompasses game development, animation, design and performing arts, say it is evolving at pace.
Judge faces charges for masturbating during trials
Judge faces charges for masturbating during trials
Judge s career ends amid lurid allegations, chargesCase could be a basis for appeals on rulings he made
JULIE E. BISBEE, Associated Press
Feb. 9, 2005
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OKLAHOMA CITY - Jurors and others in Judge Donald Thompson s courtroom kept hearing a strange whooshing noise, like a bicycle pump or maybe a blood pressure cuff. During one trial, Thompson seemed so distracted that some jurors thought he was playing a hand-held video game or tying fly-fishing lures behind the bench.
The explanation, investigators say, is even stranger than some imagined: The judge had a habit of masturbating with a penis pump under his robe during trials.