Nexen Inc. said an oil tanker loading facility it owns and operates in the Republic of Yemen was not damaged in a September suicide bombing. A Web site statement this week from a group — believed to be Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen — claimed responsibility for launching the attack, adding it inflicted "massive destruction" by blowing up an oil tanker at Nexen’s Ash Shihr oil export terminal on the morning of Sept. 15. | "There was a Yemeni guard who was killed and two employees with the security firm suffered mild concussions. If there was extensive damage, you would have seen it in our production rates. But production was not shut in or impacted in any way, shape or form." |
Calgary-based Nexen issued a similar statement on the day of the attack. Mr. Finn said one of the terrorists died in an explosion at the compound’s gate while the other was shot in his vehicle by Yemeni army security. The Internet statement said a pair of acts that day targeting Western oil facilities in Yemen — a Hunt Oil Co. refinery was also attacked and both terrorists died —were carried out on orders from Osama bin Laden.