Oil installation attacked in southern Nigeria
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Armed men have attacked an oil installation belonging to the Royal Dutch Shell company in Nigeria's volatile southern Niger Delta region, industry sources said.
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Gunmen attacked a southern Nigerian oil export terminal belonging to a subsidiary of Italy's Eni SpA early Thursday, taking three Italians and a Lebanese hostage and killing another person, officials said.
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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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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria : Nigeria&#39;s army launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which has threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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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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Rebels blew up a pipeline inside an oilfield in southern Iraq in the latest in a series of attacks on the country's oil infrastructure that has cut exports from the key southern oil fields in half, officials said Saturday.
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Saboteurs blew up an export pipeline in southern Iraq today in the latest in a series of attacks targeting the volatile countryâs crucial oil industry.
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Nigeria's army launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which has threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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Thieves stealing fuel from a pipeline in Nigeria set it ablaze as they fled from police, and at least 20 people died in the fire, authorities said Thursday.
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The most severe attack happened near the Oil Ministry building and a nearby police academy, killing 17 people. Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said most of the casualties were passersby, including seven women.
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Three Italians working for the Agip oil company have been kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants on an oil installation in southern Nigeria in which one person was wounded.
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Militants said Friday they remotely detonated an explosive device placed on a docked ship, and authorities said two people were injured in the fiery blast in restive southern Nigeria.
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Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria&#39;s southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official 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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Insurgents attacked eight oil pipelines in southern Iraq late Wednesday, temporarily slowing production on Thursday, according to an official with the state-owned oil distribution company.
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A fresh attack on oil facilities in Nigeria and possible strike action by workers there sends oil prices above $70 a barrel.
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Foreign oil companies have increased security precautions amid fears of attacks by rebels in Nigeria&#39;s Niger Delta region. A group known as the Niger Delta People&#39;s Volunteer Force says it will attack foreign oil workers.