1.   Kohl last month publicly criticized the decision of British Prime Minister John Major to let Shell dump a disused oil platform off Scotland.

2.   Shell U.K. Ltd. reversed plans Tuesday to dump a disused oil platform deep in the northern Atlantic Ocean, citing widespread opposition from European governments.

3.   HAMBURG, Germany - Oil giant Shell will delay a controversial plan to dump a disused oil platform in the Atlantic Ocean, an official told a news conference.

4.   Five activists from the Greenpeace ecological movement Wednesday re-boarded a disused oil rig in the North Sea to prevent it being scuttled, the organisation said here.

5.   Environment ministers from countries bordering the North Sea began a two-day conference here Thursday likely to be dominated by disagreement over the disposal of disused oil rigs.

6.   Oil giant Shell will delay a controversial plan to scuttle a disused oil platform in the Atlantic Ocean, a company official told a news conference on Friday.

7.   Oil giant Shell intends to delay a controversial plan to scuttle a disused oil platform in the Atlantic Ocean, a company official said on Friday.

8.   Shell has not yet responded to an offer from Norway to temporarily house the disused oil platform in a deep-water fjord until a suitable site could be found.

9.   The British division of Shell oil company Friday categorically denied that a controversial operation to scuttle a disused oil platform in the North Sea had been postponed.