Nigerian Militants Block Oil Output
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Hundreds of unarmed  Nigerian villagers, including women and children, seized three  oil platforms operated by multinational oil companies on  Sunday, shutting 90,000 barrels per day of production in a  dispute over jobs.
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A freed Nigerian oil militant vows to continue his struggle to keep more oil wealth in the Niger Delta.
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Nigeria is working to soon restore losses in oil production because of militant attacks on some pipelines, the country's finance minister said Tuesday.
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Militant group MEND is preparing attacks  on Nigerian oil facilities that could be preceded by  hostage-taking, the U.S. embassy said in a security notice on  Friday.
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Armed men have seized control of an oil complex in southern Nigeria owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, authorities said Friday.
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Insurgents attacked two oil pipelines in northern Iraq on Tuesday, halting oil exports from there to Turkey and forcing a power station to be shut down, police and officials said.
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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped  Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates  were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an  unprecedented attack on a residential compound.
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The Nigerian government sought a court  injunction on Wednesday to stop a three-day-old general strike  which has raised fears about oil supplies from the world's  seventh largest exporter.
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Nigerian militants kidnap seven oil workers from a ship off the coast of the Niger Delta, Italian oil firm Eni says.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta at dawn on Thursday, kidnapping four foreign workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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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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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants in speed boats attacked an oil pumping station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in a remote creek in southern Nigeria on Monday, an army spokesman said.
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There are some signs of progress in resolving the Nigerian conflict that is riling global oil markets. The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich south has
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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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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 main militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta pledge to suspend attacks on oil installations for one month.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil heartland said on Thursday they had called off attacks on troops after two bloody gunbattles and would fight only in response to actions by the military.