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...carpetmakers in Georgia and gardeners in Pennsylvania. They want to be in the U.S. so badly they will risk the scorpions and the rattlesnakes, the surveillance cameras and underground sensors; they will fold into hidden compartments behind the dashboard of a car or in the belly of a tanker truck. They know they can get a job no one else wants, save some money, send some home, maybe find a way to bring their family--because someday this border may not look anything like what it does now: a barbed-wire paradox, half pried open, half bolted closed...
...Sinopec is essentially a contractor, whereas CNPC actually owns the lead shares in the consortium that runs Sudan’s oil patch,” Goodman wrote. Sinopec is in the process of building a pipeline from the Melut Basin of southern Sudan to a Red Sea tanker terminal, according to an article by Goodman in the Washington Post from December 2004. A report from Reuters in October 2004 said that Sinopec bought a six percent share of two oil blocks in the eastern Upper Nile region of Sudan.Yale, in explaining its decision to divest, said in a statement...
...terminal stores various grades of petroleum-based fuel for cars and airplanes, and is used by a variety of oil companies. It normally loads about 400 tanker trunks a day, and has pipelines connecting to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Though the terminal is the country?s fifth largest, no serious disruption to gasoline supplies is expected as emergency plans to draw from other depots kick in. Fire chiefs said they had extinguished a fire at a nearby warehouse caused by the explosion, but were waiting to assemble enough equipment and foam from nearby districts before tackling the main blaze-which...
...pirates--whose motivations are more mercenary than ideological--to strike maritime targets. In Southeast Asia, where bandits regularly attack ships passing through the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea, Asian security officials fear that a terrorist cell could hire a gang of pirates to help attack an oil tanker or a container ship. Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister and national security czar Tony Tan said late last year that "the increased frequency of piracy attacks [and] the changing pattern of how the attacks are carried out lead us to fear the worst...
...Spills The breakup of the tanker Braer near Britain's Shetland Islands did a lot less damage than one might expect from 26 million gal. of escaped crude oil. But after another major spill near the Strait of Malacca, off Sumatra, Britain's Transport Secretary concluded that the number of substandard tankers on the seas was an ''international disgrace.'' A Shell International Petroleum report claimed that 20% of the world's fleet was unfit for duty...