Kidnapped Texas man gets an up-close look into Nigeria's oily Heart of Darkness

By Chris Vogel, Dallas Observer Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast of Nigeria, when he heard the shots.  A veteran rig worker for a Houston-based oil and gas contractor, Plake, a Texan through and through, had [...]