Attack, force majeure deal new blow to Nigeria oil
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A disruption to loadings from  Shell's vast Nigeria Bonny Light oilfield and an attack on an  Agip pumping station cut deeper into exports from Africa's  biggest producer and sent prices higher still on Wednesday.
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PORT HARCOURT -- Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland yesterday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities. The killings extend to four days a surge in violence between troops and rebels in the world's eighth largest oil exporter and follow the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from a US company ...
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Insurgents blew up a northern oil export pipeline on Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to the national economy, even as car bombs and gun battles across the country
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At least 30 people were killed and several shops razed Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry and a target of attacks by militants.
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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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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen in about seven speedboats attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday, kidnapping three Italian workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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Oil prices slid from record highs above  $50 a barrel Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a  surprise increase in crude stocks and rebels in Nigeria's  oil-rich delta region agreed to a preliminary cease-fire.
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Nigeria launched an offensive yesterday against a separatist rebel group that has told multinational oil companies to shut their installations by tomorrow ahead of &quot;an all-out war on the Nigerian state&quot;.
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Nigeria's main militant group said Thursday it fired on six oil industry ships and threatened an attack that will cause an "economic tsunami" in the world's oil market.
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Nigerian military officials say they have ceased military operations in the oil rich Niger Delta following a peace deal between rival gangs but there were reports of fresh killings in one village.
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BAGHDAD - Oil exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt, a senior oil official said today, following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the volatile nation&#39;s interim government.
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Nigeria threatened to report to the United Nations an alleged violation by Cameroon of a UN-brokered accord on demilitarization of Bakassi, as it worked to meet a deadline for withdrawing 3,000 Nigerian troops from the oil-rich peninsula this weekend.
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Oil prices raced to new highs above $50  on Tuesday as rebel threats against Nigerian oil facilities  threatened to inflict further strain on global supplies.
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(AGI/AFP) - Lagos, 23 dic. - Almeno 26 persone sono morte la notte scorsa in Nigeria in seguito a una violenta esplosione, provocata dal tentativo delle stesse vittime di rubare petrolio da un oleodotto del
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Nigerian police say at least 26 people have been killed after thieves set alight a fuel pipeline in the commercial capital Lagos. The fire around the pipeline, which belongs to state energy
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At least five Nigerian soldiers are killed in an attack by armed men in boats on an oil facility in the Niger Delta.
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Oil prices slid from record highs above $50 a barrel Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a surprise increase in crude stocks and rebels in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region agreed to a preliminary cease-fire with the government.