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	Grain Magazine
		Grain staff are mostly out of the office this week, tending our all-important booth at Congress 2007on the University of Saskatchewan campus.
		The announcement of the Short Grain winning entries is delayed because we have been unable, as of yet, to contact one of the winners.
		Grain is so proud to congratulate Charlotte Gill, who has won the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her short story collection Ladykiller.
	www.grainmagazine.ca (2357 words)

	Isle of Grain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Isle of Grain, (OE Greon meaning gravel) is in north Kent, England at the eastern end of the Hoo peninsula.
		The Isle constitutes a civil parish, which according to the 2001 census had a population of 1,731.
		The Isle of Grain is the easternmost end of the Hoo Peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isle_of_Grain (1045 words)

	Isle of Grain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Isle of Grain is a peninsula in north Kent, England, lying at the eastern end of the Hoo peninsula.
		It is bounded to the south and east by the River Medway, to the north by the River Thames, to the southwest by the Stoke Marshes and to the northwest by the Grain Marshes.
		Isle of Grain is also an alternative name for the village of Grain, the only one strictly on the peninsula.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Isle_of_Grain (279 words)

	Isle of Sheppey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Isle of Sheppey is a small (36 square miles, 94 km²) island off the northern coast of Kent in the Thames Estuary, some 25 miles (40km) to the east of central London.
		In common with the Wantsum Channel separating the Isle of Thanet from the mainland to the east; and Yantlet Creek at the Isle of Grain these were used in ancient times to allow shipping to reach ports such as Chatham and London without encountering the bad weather from the North Sea.
		Sheerness is a commercial port and main town of the Isle of Sheppey and owes much to its origins as a Royal Naval dockyard town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isle_of_Sheppey (2101 words)

	Energy industry UK looks to Algeria to meet its hunger for gas - Zawya.com \| Middle East Business News
		BP and Sonatrach are to make full use of their Isle of Grain capacity this winter, with the partners this month pledging that they would use the full 3.3 million t/yr capacity at the UK LNG import terminal to help alleviate potential shortages and price hikes.
		Sonatrach and BP each own half of the total capacity.The Isle of Grain was built to handle about one cargo a week of LNG, but has taken only four in five months (from July, when the terminal started accepting shipments, to the end of November).
		Isle of Grain, located on the river Medway, 36km east of London, is also strategically close to a number of the UK's gas-fired power stations and supplies homes and industry in the gas-hungry south-east.
	www.zawya.com /story.cfm/sidZAWYA20051228121321 (792 words)

	Black Isle Brewery: Save the Planet - Drink Organic
		The Black Isle Brewing Co is a small intensely independent organic brewery in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.
		The Black Isle Brewery started in 1998 when I set out to make top quality beers that could stand among the best in the country and to do it using organically produced barley and hops.
		You will see that we keep the whole process in-house from a grain of malted barley right through to the finished product, allowing us to ensure the freshness of the beer, maintain quality control and allow flexibility.
	www.blackislebrewery.com (424 words)

	Aftermath: On the Isle of Grain
		The Isle of Grain may give the impression of being a quiet backwater now, but in WW1 was a hive of military activity.
		Grain Fort and its supporting batteries and searchlight posts were manned by the Army.
		In 1918 Grain was host to the last known epidemic of malaria in the UK.
	www.aftermathww1.com /islegrain.asp (442 words)

	BP Global - BP Sonatrach Joint Venture To Bring First New Supplies Of Liquefied Natural Gas To UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Isle of Grain facility began operation as a domestic LNG peak shaving facility for supporting high demand days in the UK winter and the operational requirements of the Transco gas transmission system in 1982.
		Via its subsidiary Grain LNG Limited, NGT is the owner and operator of the Isle of Grain LNG storage terminal, which was commissioned in 1982 by the former British Gas.
		With 4 existing storage tanks, the Isle of Grain LNG terminal is being transformed to offer an LNG storage capacity of approximately 193,000m3 as well as a delivery capacity around 500 million standard cubic feet per day.
	www.bp.com /genericarticle.do?categoryId=120&contentId=2014822 (769 words)

	Gulf Times â€“ Qatarâ€™s top-selling English daily newspaper - Finance & Business
		ISLE OF GRAIN, England: Tankers laden with liquefied natural gas (LNG) have started docking at a new terminal near London as Britain boosts its gas imports to make up for sliding output from maturing North Sea fields.
		LNG coming into Grain is for energy major BP and Algerian state producer Sonatrach which own all the import capacity available under phase one of the terminal.
		The Grain terminal is set up to receive one cargo a week but that volume has yet to be reached as suppliers have steered cargoes to more attractively priced markets like Spain and the US, according to industry sources.
	www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=57603&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28 (1022 words)

	Sensa - Optical Fiber Distributed Sensing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A bespoke DTS system designed by Sensa has been installed at the terminal, providing 82 sensing elements that are attached to the top and bottom surfaces of the pipe.
		The pipeline forms part of the first phase of the development of the LNG terminal at the Isle of Grain, which was opened earlier this year as part of National Grid’s development project and £130m of initial investment.
		In addition to an ongoing temperature monitoring process, the system has already successfully monitored the preliminary process of cooling along the pipeline, which must be done prior to the first transportation of the LNG to reduce stress and damage on the pipes.
	www.sensa.org /news/Isle_of_Grain_LNG.asp (455 words)

	WWI Photos of Lt. Yeulett
		He was passed on a number of aircraft types but the majority of his flying seems to have been done in Pups such as this one.
		Subsequently it was at the Seaplane Defence Flight at St. Pol, France and at the Isle of Grain from December 1917 to June 1918.
		This incident ended this particular aircraft's useful life when it was landed on one wheel at the Isle of Grain.
	www.casey.tgis.co.uk /web/dfc/wayphotos.htm (608 words)

	Medway Council - Isle of Grain
		The former BP oil refinery site on the Isle of Grain has a deep water frontage to the Medway Estuary and rail access.
		It is largely vacant but includes Thamesport, the third largest container port in the UK and fastest growing container port in the South East, with a capacity of 400,000 containers a year (currently operational at 200,000).
		In the local plan, the land is allocated for general industrial use (B2) and warehousing (B8), subject to improvements in the local road system.
	www.medway.gov.uk /index/business/regeneration/sites/199-3.html (311 words)

	Morningstar - Dow Jones & Company, Inc.: 20th LNG Cargo Berths At UK's Isle Of Grain Terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K.'s liquefied natural gas regasification terminal at Isle of Grain in Kent has received its twentieth cargo, operator National Grid PLC (NGG) said Tuesday.
		A tolling arrangement to free up capacity at Grain so there is sufficient storage space for a whole third party cargo to be unloaded, will be put in place at the end of April.
		Isle of Grain has contributed in the region of 13 mcm a day this winter to U.K. supplies, according to gas grid operator National Grid PLC's (NGG) figures.
	news.morningstar.com /news/DJ/M03/D28/200603280845DOWJONESDJONLINE000321.html?Cat=MktDigest (474 words)

	Isle Of Grain bed and breakfast, cottage and self catering accommodation, Isle Of Grain guest houses, hotels & other ...
		Isle Of Grain bed and breakfast, cottage and self catering accommodation, Isle Of Grain guest houses, hotels & other holiday accommodation and places to stay in Isle Of Grain.
		Isle Of Grain holiday accommodation and places to stay including bed and breakfast (B&B) in Isle Of Grain, cottages, guest houses, hotels in Isle Of Grain, chalets, holiday lets, flats & apartments, camp sites & caravan parks.
		Below are links to places to visit in and around Isle Of Grain, places to eat or drink at, in and around Isle Of Grain, along with useful shops, stores and outlets for while your holidaying or visiting in and around Isle Of Grain.
	www.gocoastal.co.uk /resort_guides/isle_of_grain (750 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Kent \| Man 'youngest' asbestos victim
		A man aged 32 is claiming to be the youngest person in the UK to contract a fatal cancer caused by asbestos from domestic exposure to the substance.
		He is the youngest person known to the firm to have the disease allegedly as a result of domestic exposure.
		But it said that it did have a number of asbestos-related claims from the 1970s arising from the Isle of Grain.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/kent/3734264.stm (408 words)

	Pipex - Finance - E.On UK pledges new power plant - Broadband Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		E.On UK said the gas-fired station at the Isle of Grain, on the Kent coast, would be able to supply about a million homes with electricity if its construction gets the green light.
		In addition to the Isle of Grain, E.On UK is seeking to build a gas-fired plant at Drakelow in Derbyshire and a biomass power station at Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway.
		It currently has almost 10,000 megawatts of generation capacity in the UK and the new Isle of Grain plant will see this rise by a further 1,200 megawatts.
	finance.pipex.com /Pipex/News/Story_Page/0,13319,5287_892025,00.html (472 words)

	[CCI] FW: [AB-IX] Grain Griffin 7.7.03
		I did some notes about ten years ago and recorded that the first British seaplane station was commissioned at the Isle of Grain in December 1912.
		As the Isle of Grain Air Stationdeclined as Port Victoria grew it became known as the Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot with a Construction Depot from the original Aeroplane Repair Depot.
		This is a generalisation of pages 329 to 345 of J.M. Bruces's British Aeroplanes 1914-1919 second Impression 1969 (I used to crib from the original edition in Manchester Central Library in 1957-58 instead of studying for my professional exams!).
	pease1.sr.unh.edu /pipermail/cci/2003-July/000165.html (475 words)

	Centrica - Our company - Investor relations - Investor news
		Centrica acquires LNG capacity at Isle of Grain
		Centrica’s investment to take capacity in the new Isle of Grain terminal is part of its strategy to procure future supplies from a range of international sources, including LNG sourced through contracts and investments in upstream equity projects.
		Jake Ulrich, Managing Director of Centrica Energy, said: “This agreement to take regasification capacity at Isle of Grain is further evidence of our commitment to secure future supplies for our British Gas customers from a diverse range of international sources.
	www.centrica.co.uk /index.asp?pageid=42&newsid=573 (360 words)

	United Kingdom : Gaz de France reserves natural gas capacity for a total of 3.3 billion cubic metres at the Isle of ...
		Gaz de France has signed an agreement with Grain LNG Ltd., a subsidiary of National Grid Transco plc, giving it access to regasification capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year* in the Isle of Grain terminal (UK) starting in 2008-2009 for a period of 20 years.
		The Isle of Grain terminal in the Thames estuary will shortly become operational with an annual capacity of 3.3 million tonnes of LNG.
		This capacity will subsequently be increased to 9.8 million tonnes/year by the end of 2008, representing almost 12% of natural gas consumption in the United Kingdom.
	www.gazdefrance.com /EN/public/page.php?idarticle=1985 (400 words)

	RABI - Regions - South East - Isle of Wight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the 17th September RABI attended the Isle of Wight Ploughtin Match.
		Our thanks go to the NFU and Isle of Wight Grain for allowing us to share their marquee.
		The annual Rogation Service was held at Northwood Parish Church, Northwood on the Isle of Wight on Sunday 8th May. Rural Chaplain, Graham Morris entertained the congregation with a lovely service with interaction from the children.
	www.rabi.org.uk /regions/seast/iow (112 words)

	Ofgem reports progress on offshore and LNG gas supply issues - Computer Business Review
		On LNG imports meanwhile, Ofgem has welcomed news from National Grid, BP and Sonatrach about the use of the Isle of Grain LNG import facility this winter.
		BP and Sonatrach have stated that the facility will be utilized fully over the next fortnight and that they expect to be using the full capacity of the facility until the end of the winter.
		The three companies are also improving the arrangements for transparency and "use it or lose it" at the Isle of Grain facility.
	www.cbronline.com /article_news.asp?guid=93C6DFA3-4AAA-4313-BC3F-6C6E351E963E (361 words)

	Law firm coffers fuelled by UK’s switch to liquefied natural gas - 6 September 2004
		In addition to the British Gas-Petronas-Petroplus terminal in Milford, National Grid Transco (NGT) is developing a terminal at the Isle of Grain, Kent.
		Denton Wilde Sapte’s Charles Wood is advising Grain LNG, the NGT subsidiary operating the project.
		Last year, NGT agreed a contract with BP and Sonatrach for the sale of the LNG capacity at the Isle of Grain to BP and Sonatrach, a deal which represents around 5 per cent of the UK’s gas demand.
	www.thelawyer.com /cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=111834&d=11&h=24&f=46 (609 words)

	RIGZONE - CB&I Wins EPC Contract for LNG Terminal Expansion in U.K. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CB&I has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract with a value estimated between US$470 - $500 million for the expansion of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at the Isle of Grain, Kent, U.K. The facility will be owned and operated by Grain LNG Ltd., a subsidiary of National Grid Transco plc.
		Located on the River Medway about 20 miles east of central London, the Isle of Grain facility was originally commissioned in 1982 as an LNG peak shaving plant.
		In the first phase of the project, the facility is being converted to an LNG import terminal with an initial capacity of 3.3 million tons of LNG per year.
	www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=21440 (360 words)

	SECG Coastline: Unit1 - Isle of Grain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		South of the residential area of Grain village is a large industrial area containing a former oil refinery, now the subject of extensive redevelopment proposals.
		The defence strategies must ensure that the generally stable nature of this frontage is maintained and that the existing defences continue to defend the area.
		A 'hold the existing defence line' approach would ensure continued flood protection to much of the Isle of Grain.
	www.se-coastalgroup.org.uk /cgi-bin/buildpage.pl?mysql=17&mode=content (281 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Kent \| Two arrested as pair die in crash
		The 27-year-old man died at the scene on the A228 at Malmaynes Hall Road, Stoke on the Isle of Grain, on Saturday night.
		The two who died lived on the Isle of Grain but have not yet been named.
		The father and son were in a Mini which was in collision with a red Rover car.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/kent/4518082.stm (160 words)

	National Grid: Isle of Grain Liquefied National Gas (LNG) Site Careers:Kent, UK
		It’s a challenge that the Isle of Grain LNG site is uniquely positioned to address – and one that presents a considerable opportunity for engineering and marine professionals to play their part in powering history.
		As the first of the UK’s new breed of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) importation terminals and process plants, the Isle of Grain site has been successfully importing and storing LNG since July 2005.
		Grain LNG is growing and it is the talent behind the technology that will really fuel this expansion.
	www.nationalgrid.com /uk/GrainLNG/Careers (403 words)

	Isle of Grain Travel Guide - Vacations - VirtualTourist.com
		Home » Travel Guides » Europe » United Kingdom » Isle of Grain
		Plan a Isle of Grain vacation with reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and Isle of Grain locals.
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	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/United_Kingdom/Isle_of_Grain-312321/TravelGuide-Isle_of_Grain.html (291 words)

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