Statoil has also considered plans to boost revenues from natural gas by turning it into electricity first.

The UK has also considered plans for attacking targets in places where al-Shabaab and the pirates appear to co-exist, particularly in southern Somalia.

Oil eased below $63 a barrel today as investors considered plans by Opec members Nigeria and Venezuela to trim their output.

We went at it judiciously and with well- considered plans, three of us: the bank teller, Barrett, a young carpenter named Gifford, and myself.

At the same time the number of sane and carefully considered plans for the government of Ireland was never so great as it is to-day.