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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: flatsville who wrote (5069)	3/28/1999 11:03:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

This caught my attention, from the article you posted ... LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is best prepared of all Middle East oil exporters to cope with the Year 2000 computer bug problem ... Three of the top five U.S. oil suppliers -- Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria -- are up to 18 months behind in preparing for the millennium bug, the report said. Another key exporter, Kuwait, is understood to be especially far back. ''Nearly 50 percent of the oil used in the U.S. comes from foreign sources, yet many of the countries have a high risk of failure,'' a Senate special committee report said this month ... Some shipping bodies are understood to have decided not to carry any oil around the turn of the year ... _________________________________________________________________ Big Oil Exporters Pose Key Y2K Puzzle By Andrew Mitchell Friday March 26 2:30 AM ET Message 8555968 CHEVRON will keep its vessels out of restricted waterways and either at dock or at sea when 1999 gives way to the new millennium. Message 7853994 The reports given by oil majors CHEVRON and SHELL in relation to their examination of their tanker fleet has shown up to 20% of systems to be non-compliant, with equipment built between 1987 and 1993 particularly prone to problems. Message 7659057 Senate Report senate.gov Cheryl