In eastern Libya, rebel forces in the oil port of Ras Lanuf came under frequent air and artillery attacks.
The largest pipeline in the area, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, runs alongside the road and handles roughly 12% of U.S. oil imports.
There have been more airstrikes on the oil port of Ras Lanuf, with an oil refinery and a rebel checkpoint among the targets.
On the eastern front around the Mediterranean oil port of Ras Lanuf, rebels retreated in the face of heavy government shelling and air strikes.
In Russia's Black Sea oil port of Novorossisk, for example, a local British businessman, Clive Rumens, wanted to set up a small factory producing a simple additive that makes crude oil pour more easily.
The fighting has been heaviest in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city and major oil port, and a U.S. military analysis of the battle indicated the government push was not going as well as American officials had hoped, several U.S. officials said Friday.
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In fact, in April of 2002, we actually ran an exercise on a Louisiana -- on an offshore oil port, which is only about 90 miles to the west of where this happened, and we envisioned a total loss of the wellhead for a number of days.
Until there's a law, Addax cannot build the pipeline that would probably move oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Investment will be increased in the oil, drilling and port divisions, areas which have proven to have stronger growth and profit potential.
The sea wall on the southern side of the Humber estuary protects two power stations, a steel works, an oil store and a port.
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The north west of England has been the worst hit region so far, with the Stanlow Shell Oil Refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire blockaded since Thursday night.
Another major commodity imported into the port is bulk oil, both crude and refined products as well as chemicals.
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Many of the petroleum products refined at Mazeikiai are shipped out to Western Europe through the Klaipeda oil export terminal, a port sixty miles away.
The price of maintaining coalitions is starkly exposed by the British military's failure to rein in radical Shi'ite forces and Iranian influence in Basra, the Iraqi port city and oil hub.
While the administration and the new Democratic Congress argue over troop levels and funding for the US military in Iraq, as former CIA analyst Robert Baer wrote last week in Time magazine, Iran has effectively taken control of Basra, Iraq's port city and oil hub.
South Sudan accuses Sudan of arming Yau Yau's rebellion in order to block South Sudan's plans to build an oil pipeline through Ethiopia to a port in Djibouti.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP has set forward plans to gauge the possible expansion of its Edmonton to Vancouver pipeline and the related port facilities for overseas oil exports.
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And if he turned out to be Congo-Brazzaville's kingmaker, he would have great influence in an oil-rich country with a major port on the Atlantic coast.
But Sarir and Mislah were damaged early in the conflict, and the regime has destroyed a pipeline booster station halfway to the port in Tobruk from where oil is exported for refining.
The Coast Guard has been very vigilant over that and the oil that has attempted to get into the port, the Coast Guard is on top of.
But the Iranian fleet has been flouting safety rules and turning its beacons off since April, according to the IEA, allowing vessels to make clandestine port visits and mid-ocean oil transfers.
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Dubai had used some of its billions of dollars in oil money to build a world-class port of its own, and then created DP World to buy and manage other port operations.
Guyana has problems, too, with Venezuela , which has revived a claim to almost half its territory, including the site of a recently granted concession for a private space port and what may be large offshore oil reserves.
The Kurdish oil exports will likely be pumped through to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, on the Mediterranean Sea.
When the questions erupted - is it remotely practical, can any port be home to liquefied natural gas, oil refineries and nuclear submarines, how many jobs would come to Wales, was he serious?
Coalition forces have now largely brought under control all of major cities of south and central Iraq, including Basra, Nasiriya, Najaf, Hillah, Karbala and Baghdad, as well as Iraq's main port, Umm Qasr, and its southern oil fields.
Having reasserted control over Ajaria, Mr Saakashvili can now get his hands on its port, which handles 200, 000 barrels of oil per day, and a busy customs post on the border with Turkey.
It will be entirely dependent on the refining infrastructure and the port in the North, which means that the Sudanese oil sector will continue to function more or less as it does now.
The main Southwest Passage into the New Orleans port remains open, though the three-day trajectory of the oil slick provided by NOAA suggests the waters around the passage could become tainted.
More recently, the government has faced a labor strike at the busy port city of Ras Lanuf in December and a shutdown of an oil terminal in Zueitina, just east of Tripoli where protestors demanded jobs for about 1, 500 local residents.
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