Alaska. Cook Inlet. Dolly Varden off shore oil rig. Oil drilling platform at night with work boats.
The fall in oil price from well above $100 per barrel to below $50 per barrel has put Nigeria and other oil-dependent economies in dire straits. In Nigeria particularly, a combination of this with mindless looting of the national treasury has brought the country to the brinks economically.
Since the
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