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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An archipelago of northern Scotland in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of the Orkney Islands. The islands were occupied by Norse invaders and colonists after the late ninth century and were annexed by Scotland in 1472.
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- proper noun A group of
islands ofScotland , roughly north-east of theOrkney Islands . - proper noun The region of Scotland comprising these islands.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland
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The area to the West of the Shetland Islands is the last major area of the UK Continental Shelf to be developed and infrastructure will be critical to fully unlocking the gas potential of the region.
New Statesman 2010
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The area to the West of the Shetland Islands is the last major area of the UK Continental Shelf to be developed and infrastructure will be critical to fully unlocking the gas potential of the region.
New Statesman 2010
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The Shetland Islands are the most northerly county of the
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At present, several companies are seeking to explore areas near the Shetland Islands and in Greenland where their wells would be in far deeper water than normal, and potentially in environmentally sensitive areas.
EU crackdown on oil firms will not extend to overseas operations 2011
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LONDON— BP PLC affirmed its commitment to the U.K. North Sea Wednesday with a plan to invest £3 billion $4.77 billion redeveloping two fields west of the Shetland Islands, despite a recent increase in the tax levied on oil and gas production in the country.
BP to Invest Billions in North Sea Alexis Flynn 2011
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The last major incident in the North Sea was in 1993, when the MV Braer carrying 85,000 metric tons of crude oil ran aground in a storm in the Shetland Islands.
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The deal includes Exxon Mobil's nonoperated interests in the Maclure, Scott and Telford fields and the Benbecula exploration acreage west of the Shetland Islands.
Exxon Sells U.K. North Sea Assets to Apache Isabel Ordonez 2011
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Police last week said they had arrested a man they identified at that point only as Topiary at his home in the Shetland Islands in connection with Anonymous and LulzSec, or Lulz Security.
'Anonymous' Probe Nets Teenager in Britain Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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Reuters Activists tried to stop a Chevron ship in the North Sea, about 160 kilometers north of the Shetland Islands, in September.
U.K. Panel Questions Readiness to Fix Spill James Herron 2011
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Major changes to drilling regulations could have a significant impact on the U.K. because its main deep-water area, west of the Shetland Islands, is thought to be home to the bulk of the country's undeveloped oil and gas resources.
U.K. Panel Questions Readiness to Fix Spill James Herron 2011
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