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"Transmission Losses:" West African pirates

Plugs and Cars

In the Niger Delta, the pirates in armed speedboats attack tankers and work with militants in the delta's swamplands who steal around 150,000 barrels a day from oil installations or pipelines, around 5 percent of Nigeria's daily production. Most were related to the oil industry. oil imports. Source: UPI.com ].

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus. The presence of oil and gas installations in his village, which is in the oil-producing part of Nigeria, led him to wonder how they worked and how they were remotely controlled.

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