VOL. XLVI

No 4

27-January-2003

YEMEN

Nexen To Help Strengthen Ash-Shihr Oil Terminal Security

Yemeni oil officials said on 19 January that their government had signed an agreement with Canadas Nexen under which the latter will supply equipment to strengthen security at ash-Shihr oil terminal near Mukalla on the Indian Ocean. It was here that a French-flagged supertanker, Limburg, was damaged by a bomb in October last year (MEES, 14 October 2002). According to the officials, Nexen which operates...