Energy companies have recently found more than 700m barrels of commercially viable oil in the pristine Albertine Graben region, representing the first major petroleum strike in east Africa.

Strike - dip, development degree and horizontal stress of the natural fracture in oil well perforated intervals affects operated fracturing pressure directly.

Of all the disasters to strike us, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could, however, be potentially be the most terrible, and we must act decisively, act without delay, and act in unity to stop it.