Danger a constant in Nigeria's oil delta
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The drama of foreign oil workers kidnapped for ransom in restive southern Nigeria plays out so often that it seems the hostage takers, the oil giants and the army follow a script &#151; one that usually ends peacefully with the captives released unharmed.
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AGAIN, Nigeria walks the path of conflict that is not only unnecessary and avoidable, it is potentially harmful and disruptive to the nationâs social, economic and political stability.
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Nigerian militants and troops engaged in a major firefight near an oil pumping station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the eastern part of the Niger Delta on Wednesday, militants said.
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The United States warned yesterday that Nigerian militants may be planning to expand their activities beyond the country's restive oil-producing southern regions. Light, sweet crude prices rose more than $1, to settle above $59 a barrel, in part because of worries over the warning. The warning by the United States, which receives more than 10 percent of ...
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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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Representatives of a remote community in southern Nigeria&#39;s Delta region have taken over three oil installations. The plants are run by the Nigerian wing of the Anglo-Dutch multi-national, Shell, and the American company, Chevron-Texaco.
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A fresh attack on oil facilities in Nigeria and possible strike action by workers there sends oil prices above $70 a barrel.
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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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Nigerian rebels battling troops in  Africa's top oil exporter declared on Sunday they would extend  their uprising across the whole of the country's oil-producing  southern delta.
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A rebel warlord accused the Nigerian  government of violating a cease-fire and threatened to blow up  a gas plant on Friday, reviving a threat to Nigerian oil  operations which has driven crude prices to a record high.
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Crude prices have hit record highs as Nigeria emerges as the new focus of worries about supply security on world oil markets. London Brent on the International Petroleum
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Oil prices ended above $50 a barrel on Friday amid concern over possible fighting between rebels and the military in Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich delta region.
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Oil prices ended above $50 a barrel on  Friday amid concern over possible fighting in Nigeria's  oil-producing delta region, where a two-day truce between rebel  militia and government forces was holding.
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A nation-wide strike is under way in Nigeria to protest fuel price increases in the oil-rich west African nation. Reports from Abuja, the Nigerian capital, and Lagos, the country&#39;s commercial cenbter, say
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipina woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident.
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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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Western experts worried about the   security of oil supplies from Africa's Gulf of Guinea have   considered several doomsday scenarios, including suicide   attacks by determined Islamist militants on offshore oil   platforms.