Oil workers threatened in Nigeria
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Foreign oil workers in Nigeria's Niger Delta are warned to leave the region by a local armed militia.
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A four-day strike against fuel price rises in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, begins.
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A four-day national strike has begun in Nigeria in protest at a 25% increase in the cost of oil. Oil executives in Nigeria said they were confident there would be no immediate disruption to exports.
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LONDON, England -- Oil prices have surged to historic levels as a threat of civil war in Nigeria adds to concerns over tight global supplies.
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An ethnic militia group in Nigeria&#39;s southeastern oil region vowed on Tuesday to attack oil workers there unless their companies shut down operations within three days.
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The US says it is closely watching the situation in Nigeria, where a rebel militia has threatened to attack oil production facilities and foreign oil workers.
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Gunmen abducted two expatriate oil workers after an ambush in the Nigerian southern oil city of Port Harcourt, bringing to at least 10 the number kidnapped in the past week in the restive Niger Delta region, an industry source told AFP.
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Unions declared the top multinational oil company here, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, &quot;an enemy of the Nigerian people&quot; on Sunday and called for a Nov.
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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.
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Nigerian oil workers' unions are to stage a brief strike protest at the lack of security in the Niger Delta.
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Nigeria&#39;s main oil workers union threatened to shut down the country&#39;s oil industry as a nationwide general strike entered its third day Wednesday, increasing concerns about supply from Africa&#39;s biggest crude producer.
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Nigerian unions threatened to disrupt  power and water supplies on Friday after talks collapsed on the  third day of a general strike to protest against a rise in fuel  prices.
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Oil prices have raced to new record high levels after oil majors evacuated workers in Nigeria and police clashed with suspected Islamic militants in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.
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Hundreds of people invade an oil installation operated by Chevron Texaco in Nigeria's Delta region.
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Foreign oil companies have increased security precautions amid fears of attacks by rebels in Nigeria&#39;s Niger Delta region. A group known as the Niger Delta People&#39;s Volunteer Force says it will attack foreign oil workers.
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Threats against foreign oil workers have brought the Nigerian government to the negotiating table with the self-styled Nigerian warlord Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, whose band of 2,000 poorly
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Gunmen kidnapped a group of foreign oil workers on Friday, including three Americans and four Britons, in Nigeria's unruly southern petroleum-producing region, officials said.