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Africa Subsaharan

Nigeria oil pipeline 'attacked'

2008-06-22

US oil giant Chevron has halted onshore oil production at its Escravos oilfield after an attack on a pipeline. The loss could equate to about 120,000 barrels per day, about 6.6% of Nigeria's total daily crude production.

The Nigerian military said militants blew up the Niger Delta pipeline, but the region's main armed group blamed angry youths for the attack. Earlier this week, Nigeria's president ordered tighter security in the Delta after an attack at a Shell facility. According to the BBC's Alex Last, in Lagos, sources in the western Niger Delta believe the latest attack is the work of illegal oil "bunkerers" - involved in the lucrative trade in stolen oil.

Posted by:Fred

#2 The Nigerian truce correlates with Saudi Arabia's OPEC Summit.

Posted by: Spike Phaitle6860 2008-06-22 20:35

#1 That is yet another attack by the MEND group that is targeting oil infrastructure. MEND is a communist organizaion that is armed by Cuba, Venezuela, and Libya.

MEND and other groups commenced terror, after they engineered production of the "Niger Delta Manifesto." One part of it reads,

"It is noteworthy that this conference is being held 155 years after the publication of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. That document was the first prophetic statement that proclaimed the ascendancy of the working class as a ruling class. In their usually vibrant and robust style, Marx and Engels concluded the Manifesto with a charge to the oppressed and dispossessed of the world to revolt and break the chains that held them in servitude. "Workers of the world unite ... you have nothing to lose but your chains," so declared St. Marx and St. Engels."

Posted by: McZoid 2008-06-22 06:30

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