It is less clear how oil leaving there will reach more distant waters.
RARELY do outsiders get to see how oil companies book reserves at a given oil field.
Fernando was here to see how oil drilling and eco-tourism might coexist in the park.
But the mood was tempered by the knowledge of how oil has polluted the nearby Niger Delta and corrupted Nigeria.
Last year, the Ugandan parliament passed the Public Finance Management Act, which details how oil revenues should be used.
A senior Kuwaiti oil official said it was not immediately clear how oil production would be affected.
If the rules work as intended, they could set a new model for how oil business is done in Africa.
Former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata remembers how oil embargoes in the 1970's brought the global economy to its knees.
The Bodo explosion is significant because it shows how oil theft in Nigeria has reached an industrial scale.
FINDING ENERGY The technology that has allowed horizontal drilling — as opposed to drilling straight down — has radically changed how oil and natural gas are extracted.
National news crews are chartering planes to nearby islands to see how oil still coats rocks just below the surface all these years later.
