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Basra is Iraq's boom town.
Last Tuesday’s killing of a ship’s officer while seriously injuring his colleagues aboard an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa seems to have started impacting the shipping industry.
Lord Mandelson called on British business to “seize the opportunity” of investing in Iraq as he led the first British trade delegation in two decades to the war-torn country.
The fortunate outcome of the helicopter accident off Aberdeen on Tuesday evening was boosted by the crucial emergency response protocols each company involved instituted.
A British journalist kidnapped in Somalia has been released, along with a Spanish photographer.
Armed hijackers have seized a vessel belonging to the French oil services group Bourbon as it was heading to a Shell offshore oilfield on January 4, according to security sources.
Tribal chiefs are undertaking negotiations with Yemeni kidnappers in an attempt to secure the release of a South African woman and her two sons who were seized by armed men on January 2.
Saboteurs have blown up an oil pipeline operated by Italy's Agip in the southern Niger Delta according to military sources.
The company director of a security firm has been made to steal around €1million from the safes of his own company by a kidnap gang who had seized his family.
Gunmen aboard speedboats have attacked three oil services ships and kidnapped two Russian workers working for an aluminium company in separate incidents in Nigeria's Niger Delta.
Several members of a group alleged to be planning a terrorist attack in the Gulf state of Bahrain have been arrested, according to a statement released by the state security.
Security has been tightened in Paris and other French cities after a previously unknown group claimed responsibility for a bomb threat in a branch of the men’s department store Printemps in the heart of Paris's shopping district.
Violent clashes in the disputed Sudanese oil town of Abyei have caused thousands to flee and left at least one person dead, according to Sudanese officials.
A Scots oil worker has been kidnapped in southern Nigeria, it was confirmed last night. A security worker said the man was working for an oil services firm in the city of Port Harcourt when he was captured by unidentified gunmen.
Two British security guards have leapt overboard from a chemical tanker detained by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, according to British diplomats.
A series of co-ordinated attacks across the Indian city of Mumbai have killed at least 101 people and injured 287 more.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters have stormed Thailand's international airport building, forcing all flights to be suspended until the situation is bought under control.
Yemen is heading towards an economic and political disaster as the country's oil resources near depletion, a report suggests.
Shipping companies are being forced to avoid the Suez Canal and send oil cargoes and other goods on a longer route around southern Africa due to widespread piracy off Somalia, industry officials have said.
A flurry of pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia has prompted an emergency meeting between Red Sea bordering nations to contend with the problem.
A gigantic Saudi-owned oil tanker has been captured by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean and is being steered towards Somalia, according to US Navy reports.
Campaigners have defied an official news blackout in a bid to free a Briton held in Iraq. Friends of Peter Moore, a computer consultant who was kidnapped along with his bodyguards over 18 months ago.
A crude oil pipeline that links the Chevron-operated Escravos terminal in the Niger Delta was attacked late on November 14, according to military sources.
Armed men have kidnapped an Iranian diplomat and killed his bodyguard in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to police sources.
A series of bomb explosions has killed at least 64 people in India's north-eastern state of Assam. At least 18 blasts caused the deaths and injured more than 300 others.
Ten crew members from an oil vessel have been kidnapped by armed gunmen in speedboats. The ship was attacked off the West African state of Cameroon and the abductors have threatened to kill the hostages.
An Israeli businessman has escaped unharmed from his captors after being abducted in Ghana. Reports state that he was freed by Ghanaian security forces with the assistance of Israeli police.
Five Chinese oil workers who were abducted in Sudan nine days ago have been killed, according to Sudan's foreign ministry.
An Afghan security guard at a courier company in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed two foreigners before shooting himself, government sources say.
At least two oil vessels have been attacked by pirates in Nigeria in the offshore waters of the Niger Delta on Saturday, briefly capturing a number of oil workers including seven French citizens.
Two children of an oil worker have been kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta oil city of Port Harcourt, police reported on October 21.
Nigerian navy vessels guarding the country's main crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals were attacked by gunmen in speedboats on Wednesday, according to Nigerian military and security sources.
A gas sub-pipeline in Iraq that transports unrefined gas from the Bai Hasan oilfields in Kirkuk was attacked and seriously damaged in the early hours of October 14.
Commercial shipping companies are resorting to employing private security firms to combat maritime piracy in the waters off the Somalian coast.
Two US citizens have gone missing while on holiday in Lebanon, according to the US embassy in Beirut.
Kidnappers in Somalia seized a Pakistani oil worker for a brief period of time on October 8.
The British national seized by a five-strong gang in Port Harcourt has been released unharmed.
A group of 11 Western tourists who were seized on September 19 have been released after a mission by the Egyptian military.
Somalian pirates have seized a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 Russian built T-72 tanks and "a substantial quantity of ammunition", according to the Ukrainian defence ministry. It is not yet known where the vessel has been taken.
Nigeria's largest militant group announced a unilateral ceasefire on Sunday following a week of conflict with the military and attacks on oil installations which have restricted oil output in Africa's top producer.
Specialist anti-kidnapping units have been created by the Mexican government to tackle the increasing levels of kidnapping in the country, which are among the highest in the world.
A huge bomb blast has struck the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad, leaving at least 40 people dead.
At least 16 people have been killed in a double car bomb attack on the US embassy in Yemen, according to Yemeni officials. The attack is the second on the embassy this year.
Two sailors seized by Somalian pirates earlier this month have been freed by French Commandos. One pirate was killed in the operation and another six captured, according to a statement issued by the French presidency.
Following clashes with security forces guarding facilities in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region, militants say they have "declared war" on the government.
Natural gas exports from Bolivia to Argentina have returned to normal levels after protesters attacked and damaged a pipeline, according to a statement issued by the Bolivian government.
The Foreign Office has confirmed that a British national has been kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria. The man, originally from Scotland, was reportedly an ex-employee of the petrochemicals firm Indo Rama, and was captured by a five-strong gang.
A day after declaring they were "at war" with the military, militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region say they have destroyed an oil installation.
Somalian pirates have hijacked a Malaysian tanker, which is being sailed towards their coastal base of Eyl, where six other vessels are also being held for ransom.
Kidnappers in Nigeria have demanded a $12 million ransom for the release of an Israeli construction manager kidnapped from his home on August 27 in Port Harcourt.
The main east-west railway in Georgia has been reopened after an explosion on the line west of the central town of Gori, according to a spokesperson from Georgian Railways.
Wealthy Mexicans, alarmed by increasing numbers of kidnappings, are paying thousands of dollars to have tiny transmitters implanted under their skin so satellites can help locate them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.
Eight police officers and three soldiers were wounded by a bomb which tore through a minibus in the western Turkish city of Izmir, Turkey's third largest city.
After an EU-brokered truce between Russian and Georgian troops, BP have reported that the pumping of gas through a pipeline that runs through Georgia has resumed.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have claimed responsibility for sabotaging the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline near the town of Refahiye in eastern Turkey on Tuesday 5 August.
Businesses in Mexico are tightening security against gangs who are slipping illegal drugs and contraband into legitimate export shipments.
Troops in Mauritania, the world’s newest oil producer, have overthrown President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and say they have formed a state council to rule the country.
Nigerian gunmen have kidnapped two French workers near Nigeria's oil industry hub of Port Harcourt in the troubled Niger Delta, according to reports from military and security sources.
Homemade bombs have killed 16 police in western China just four days ahead of the Olympic Games, one of the worst attacks by suspected Muslim separatists on Chinese soil.
Several people in Istanbul are being held over the double bombings that killed 17 people on July 27.
Crude oil production in Nigeria was cut by 150,000 barrels per day after two major pipelines in the Niger Delta were sabotaged by militants earlier this week, according to state-run oil company NNPC.
Shell have reported that little progress had been made in reaching an agreement for short-term oil service contracts in Iraq in recent weeks, but are eyeing potential natural gas deals.
Seventeen bomb blasts in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on 26 July have now claimed 49 lives and wounded over 100, according to police who are still hunting the attackers.
Eight foreign oil workers were kidnapped by gunmen from a vessel off the Niger Delta on 26 July, increasing the number of industry workers captured in 48 hours to sixteen.
Three people have been killed in two explosions that ripped through two buses this morning in China’s southwestern city of Kunming.
The kidnappers of five British hostages seized in Baghdad last year have claimed in a videotaped statement that one of the men has killed himself.
Thousands of Nigerians have fled the Niger Delta oil town of Bonny after militants threatened to behead people who are not originally from the area.
Following talks with Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, the prime minister said the UK would help "identify a training and advisory support package".
An Aberdeen-based ex-Royal Marine Commando has launched a new international security firm to provide high-level security services and training to companies and high net worth individuals.
The search for a missing millionaire executive of a UK newspaper has entered its second week after Latvian police failed to make any headway on his disappearance last week.