Shell, Dole, and Dow Chemical submitted a brief to the court, urging it to side with Chevron.

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Some of Shell's brightest longer-term gas prospects are in Saudi Arabia, where Shell has done business since the 1940s and helped build chemical plants.

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The gauntlet's hard plastic shell is even roomy enough to add GPS equipment, biometrics, chemical sensors, or other embedded additions, as needed.

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In China, Shell technology is at the center of 15 coal gasification plants being built to produce chemical feedstocks at a lower cost than using natural gas.

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