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The South African Development Community has agreed to send up to 3,000 troops to contain Mozambique’s terrorist insurgency after Total declared force majeure and evacuated all personnel from its Mozambique LNG worksite.

The system presented in this paper uses a fiber-optic cable and cameras to provide intruder detection and identification. It transmits the signals wirelessly through the remote telemetry units at the wellhead.

Mozambique said its security forces repelled an attack by Islamist insurgents on a town close to the site where Total is building a $20 billion natural gas facility.

Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said on 11 December that authorities had disrupted a plan to attack Venezuela’s 146,000-B/D El Palito refinery and had arrested two suspects in the plot.

British armed forces forcibly boarded and regained control of an oil tanker in the English Channel on the evening of 25 October following a suspected hijacking, according to the UK defense ministry.

A recent panel discussion highlighted the industry’s progress in achieving significant digital advances. Barriers remain, however, and the measurement of success is being defined in this evolving technological step change.

Protecting the oil and gas market is key to a thriving economy. The list of security challenges for oil and gas requires the best technology solutions the industry has to offer. A panel of experts addresses the question "What are the security challenges of the oil and gas market?"

A recent report details national and global security threats related to climate change in the hopes that decision-makers and leaders will recognize the relationship between global warming and security.

A ring of at least five people targeted syntactic foam, a key material for deepwater oil drillers that also has military and commercial uses.

In a new troubling escalation, hackers behind at least two potentially fatal intrusions on industrial facilities have expanded their activities to probing dozens of power grids in the US and elsewhere, researchers with security firm Dragos reported.