As the price of oil around the world continues to rise, gas smuggling in Thailand has been increasing as well.
From the Bangkok Post:
An increase in oil prices has intensified petrol smuggling from Malaysia into four districts of the southern province of Songkhla.
Oil business operators have stocked up on the illegally imported petrol in the hope [...]

From the Christian Science Monitor:
The recent fight in Basra between Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen was about more than a government bid to reassert itself in a city where Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army was digging in. It was also about oil – and smuggling.Before the assault [...]

The BBC reports on the gas smuggling business in Bolivia.
From the BBC News:
Government subsidies mean Bolivia has a low retail price for oil - about 50 US cents a litre.
Those subsidies have boosted the smuggling business, as the price of diesel oil in border countries such as Brazil and Peru, are up [...]

The New York Times reported over the weekend that at least one-third of fuel from Iraq’s largest refinery is being diverted to the black market.  The proceeds from the sale are being used to support in insurgency against American troops.
From the New York Times:
The sea of oil under Iraq is supposed to rebuild the nation, [...]

Since authorities in Iran began rationing gasoline last year, a black market has been created to meet the needs of drivers in Iran.
From the AP:
Iran is the world’s fourth-largest producer of oil. But its government imposed gasoline rationing last year in hopes of trimming extensive government subsidies. That has created a booming black market [...]

Jim Landers of The Dallas Morning News has a column on the bizarre situation concerning gas in Iraq and Iran.  Although both countries as located on oil fields, the ability to get gas to consumers in their own country has proven difficult due to the practice of subsidizing fuel prices.
How a country rich in oil [...]

Stars and Stripes reports on US Soldiers targeting black market operations that funnel revenue to the Iraqi insurgency.
Organized crime is nothing new in Iraq. Smuggling has long been an intrinsic part of Iraq’s black market economy, most notably under Saddam Hussein. Many of these criminal networks have not gone away, but have simply adapted to [...]

The Nigerian Navy seized 236 ships, tugboats, and barges from pirates who use the vessels to smuggle oil.  However, even with the Navy estimating that smuggling activities have been reduced by 80 percent, the problem of oil smuggling in the Niger Delta still exists.
Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer, exporting 2.14 million barrels of crude per day, but [...]