Militants block 90,000 bpd oil in Nigeria
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PORT HARCOURT - Hundreds of unarmed Nigerian villagers, including women and children, seized three oil platforms operated by multinational oil companies yesterday, shutting 90,000 barrels per day of production in a dispute over jobs.
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Insurgents in Nigeriaâs southern Niger Delta will begin âa full-scale armed struggleâ to wrest control of the regionâs oil riches from the government on Friday, a rebel spokesman said today.
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Multinational oil companies being targeted by militants in Nigeria will weather attacks on their infrastructure and personnel given the huge potential for profit there, analysts and the oil groups say.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Protesters besieged oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. for a second day yesterday, shutting down 90,000 barrels a day in oil production, company officials said.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Talks aimed at averting an  explosion of fighting in Nigeria's oil production hub were  salvaged Friday when the government called off gunships and  helicopters sent to attack rebel militia.
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Crude oil production in the country has again been disrupted after militant youths, numbering about 200, stormed and forcefully shut down three flowstations in the swamp of Rivers State.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria's southern oil region, shutting down production of 90,000 barrels of oil a day, company officials said Monday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants in speed boats attacked Nigerian soldiers escorting a convoy supplying oilfields operated by Royal Dutch Shell on Monday, ending a month of relative quiet in the Niger Delta.
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Gunmen used dynamite and  heavy machine guns to kidnap at least three senior managers of  Indonesian chemical company Indorama in Nigeria&#39;s southern  oil-producing Niger Delta, police said on Friday.
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More than 80 ships, many carrying fuel, were blocked and waiting to dock at Lagos port on Wednesday, port sources said, three days after a paralyzing general strike ended in Nigeria.
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Protesters besieged 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 production from Africa&#39;s leading oil exporter, 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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Hundreds of people invade an oil installation operated by Chevron Texaco in Nigeria's Delta region.
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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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The Nigerian navy said Tuesday it had seized 236 ships, tugboats and barges used for smuggling crude oil and petroleum products in the high seas and Niger delta.
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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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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.