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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (340)	10/29/1997 2:57:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Millennium computer bug could shut N.Sea platforms biz.yahoo.com excerpt: Companies such as Royal Dutch/Shell (RD.AS) (SHEL.L) and British Petroleum Co Plc (BP.L) said they realise they are sitting on a time bomb and are racing against the clock to check millions of microprocessors. But, they fear smaller firms have not yet fully grasped the threat to the oil industry. [...] The oil industry faces a gargantuan task to fight the millennium bug, illustrated by the fact a single offshore oil platform may contain over 10,000 microprocessors. Some are deep below sea level, but all need to be checked.