
Oil bounty encouraging pirate activity off West African coast

A three-day course, running alongside Oil and Gas Africa 2012, will cover detection, identification and prevention of in-service damage mechanisms
The former chairman of DESOPADEC has called for 12 modular refineries to be established in the core Niger Delta states
Emirates National Oil Company has inaugurated a new US$180mn facility in Tangier, Morocco
Asias imports of crude from West Africa are at record highs as sanctions on Iran cut supplies from the Islamic Republic to China