China

Oil field tightens security

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-01-29 16:00

A policeman inspects a vehicle seized from oil thieves at a police station near Shengli Oil Field, the second largest oilfield in China, in Dongying, eastern Shandong Province in this photo taken on January 23. Local police have smashed 720 cases of stealing crule oil in 2006 and retrieved 9,000 tons of oil and 300 tons of other missing materials. [Xinhua]