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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Germany on an inlet of the North Sea. It was a major naval base during World Wars I and II and is now a port, industrial center, and resort with a new naval base rebuilt after 1956.
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Clayton Reasor, Conoco's vice president for investor relations, said the company next year might sell its Wilhelmshaven refinery in Germany, as well as exploration and production assets in the continental U.S., western Canada and elsewhere.
Conoco's Earnings Double as Prices Rise Isabel Ord 2010
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Earning were also hit by a $109 million increase in deferred tax expense from tax legislation enacted in the U.K., a loss on the sale of its Wilhelmshaven Refinery in Germany and costs related to oil spills from offshore wells operated by ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay.
ConocoPhillips Profit Falls 14% on Charges Isabel Ordonez 2011
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In one early dispatch, "How It Feels to Bomb Germany," he wrote about riding in a Flying Fortress nicknamed the Banshee during an Allied assault on the port city of Wilhelmshaven.
Curmudgeonly Commentator Andy Rooney Dies Stephen Miller 2011
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The Wilhelmshaven plant has faced a series of setbacks in the last year.
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Thursday scrapped plans to upgrade its 260,000 barrel-a-day Wilhelmshaven oil refinery in Germany, which will result in a non-cash impairment charge of $1.1 billion after tax to the company's second-quarter earnings.
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The Wilhelmshaven refinery is relatively unsophisticated, so it can't churn out as many high-quality, expensive fuels, like gasoline and diesel, as other European plants.
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At Hanover and Bremen there were searchlights, and between Bremen and Wilhelmshaven there was an intense barrage of searchlights and of gunfire.
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On 24 October, 1918, Admiral Franz von Hipper ordered the German fleet at Kiel, near Wilhelmshaven, to sail out against the British blockade in what would basically have been a suicide mission.
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The Norddeutsche Oelleitung (NDO) crude oil pipeline in northern Germany connects an oil terminal and refinery in Hamburg with an oil terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
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Another crude oil pipeline, the 240-mile, 300,000-bbl/d Nord-West Oelleitung (NWO), connects Wilhelmshaven with Wesseling, near Cologne, supplying oil refineries in the area.
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