20 Nigerian Shell contractors missing after attack
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - About 20 Nigerians working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday.
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Adams Oshiomhole, the president of Nigeria&#39;s main union body, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is missing. He was picked up by secret police at the airport of the capital, Abuja, early on Saturday.
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Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell has evacuated non-essential staff from two flow stations in the Niger delta, where government forces have been attacking rebel militia, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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At least 20 people were killed and more than 60 wounded in lunchtime attack at a base near Mosul in Iraq, military officials said.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage, security and industry sources said on Friday.
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KIRKUK, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a crowd of people waiting to apply for jobs with the Iraqi National Guard in the northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 16, officials said.    Also Saturday, videotape surfaced showing two Americans and a Briton kidnapped two days ago from their house in central Baghdad...
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At least seven foreign oil workers were kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry sources said.
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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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One of two oil tankers that went missing laden with crude oil has been found, says the Nigerian navy.
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Troops drove out gunmen holding some two dozen workers and soldiers hostage in a Nigerian oil installation Thursday, the military said. About a dozen gunmen were killed.
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LAGOS : The death toll from an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos has risen to around 60 as more bodies were recovered from the scene.
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Gunmen have kidnapped the two-year-old daughter of a Shell worker in Port Harcourt, the country&#39;s oil capital, Nigerian authorities and company sources said Thursday.
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A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb Saturday outside an Iraqi police academy as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing 20 people and wounding 36 others in the latest attack designed to thwart U.S-backed efforts to build a strong Iraqi security force ahead of January elections.
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Suicide bombers have killed 20 members of Iraq&#39;s security forces near a US marine base west of Baghdad and at a checkpoint north of the capital.
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BAGHDAD : Roadside bombs wounded six national guards north of Baghdad as Iraq&#39;s security forces struggled to recover from a twin suicide car bombing that ripped through their ranks, killing 20.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, has withdrawn staff from oil facilities in Nigeria&#39;s troubled Niger Delta. The evacuation of 254 non-essential staff follows a new wave of increased violence in the region.
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A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a crowd of people waiting to apply for jobs with the Iraqi National Guard in the northern city of Kirkuk on yesterday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 16, officials said.