al-Reuters has a story about a speedboat attack on the Shell oilfields off Nigeria. This is a new development (along with a ship captain kidnapped by the same outlaws), and bodes ill for Nigerian production.
Rico says Shell and the others should stop paying royalties to Nigeria until they deal with the problem...
(Proving yet again that great minds think alike, see the post on the same situation at the Peripatetic Engineer.)
These guys took a small boat 75 miles offshore. How hard can it be to intercept them either coming or going? This is a classic case of the need for a littoral navy. Oh wait, we have one - the Naval Coastal Warfare Squadrons.
ReplyDeleteWe must have had the same idea at the same time. See my post at Peripatetic Engineer.