SYRIA’S OIL WOES
It’s seven in the evening and the children are beginning to look restless and somewhat bored with the kids' play area at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
The two mothers are glancing at their watches, hoping their last 20 minutes in the airport don’t drag out too long. “My husband has been working in Shell in Syria for three years now,” says one of the women, in her late thirties. “The kids have begun to pick up Arabic, although they go to a foreign school.”
But the women’s stay in Damascus is likely to be cut short. They explain that with oil supplies fast running out in Syria, Royal Dutch Shell has decided to cut its work forces in the country from 100 to 40.
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The two mothers are glancing at their watches, hoping their last 20 minutes in the airport don’t drag out too long. “My husband has been working in Shell in Syria for three years now,” says one of the women, in her late thirties. “The kids have begun to pick up Arabic, although they go to a foreign school.”
But the women’s stay in Damascus is likely to be cut short. They explain that with oil supplies fast running out in Syria, Royal Dutch Shell has decided to cut its work forces in the country from 100 to 40.
( Full story here )
posted by Oil Shock at 3/01/2006 07:16:00 PM
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