Protesters seize oil platforms in Nigeria
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Protesters seized oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp for a second day Monday, shutting down 90,000 barrels a day in oil production, company officials said.
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria - Multinational oil companies began talks with hundreds of Nigerian villagers occupying three oil platforms yesterday in a dispute over jobs that shut at least 90 000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil production.
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LAGOS: A four-day general strike over rising fuel prices has begun in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil producer. The largest trade union grouping in the country, the Nigerian Labour Congress, said more strikes
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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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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Lolo Oluchi has painted over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in this Nigerian oil city, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil workers last August, but the regulars haven't come back.
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Multinational companies began talks Monday with Nigerian villagers occupying three oil platforms in a dispute over jobs which shut 90,000 barrels per day of oil production.
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LAGOS  - Nigerian villagers and militants have stormed three oil pumping stations in the Niger Delta, halting production and trapping more than 100 workers on board, the energy giants Shell and ChevronTexaco said.
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Multinational oil companies began talks with hundreds of Nigerian villagers occupying three oil platforms on Monday in a dispute over jobs which shut 90,000 barrels per day of oil production.
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Nigerian oil workers' unions are staging a three-day strike to protest at the lack of security in the Niger Delta.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked a Shell oil rig in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday and kidnapped five expatriates, police and security sources said.
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Nigerian oil militants say they have seized four foreigners and threaten more attacks ahead of an Opec summit.
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Oil prices surge over $76 barrel amid growing concern that unrest in Nigeria will damage exports.
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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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Armed men have seized control of an oil complex in southern Nigerian owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, authorities said Friday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven oil workers including one Italian in a raid on an oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil region, shutting down production
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At least four foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.