Oil man dies in Niger Delta raid
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A foreign oil worker dies in a gun attack on a compound in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt.
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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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A motorist was killed and another was injured when the Columbia Gulf natural gas pipeline exploded near Interstate Highway 20 in northeast Louisiana on Friday afternoon, said a Louisiana State Police spokeswoman.
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Three soldiers and eight militants were killed in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, the navy said on Sunday.
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At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform in stormy weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said Wednesday. Seven workers were still missing.
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One foreign oil worker is killed and another wounded during an attempt to free those seized by Nigerian militants.
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Police in Nigeria say dozens of people were killed in an explosion at an oil pipeline on the outskirts of the commercial capital, Lagos.
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Nigerian oil workers' unions are to stage a brief strike protest at the lack of security in the Niger Delta.
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More than 30 people siphoning petrol from a pipeline near Lagos, were killed when the leaking fuel exploded into an inferno of flame, Nigerian police said on Friday.
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More than 30 people were killed after a car crashed into a fuel tanker, which exploded and burst into flames early Saturday in the oil-rich town of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, police said.
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At least one person has been killed and four foreigners were kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants against an oil installation belonging to Italian company Agip in southern Nigeria.
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Addax Petroleum Corp. said on  Friday it increased security at its Nigerian operations  following the death of a contract employee who was kidnapped  from one of the company offshore platforms.
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At least 34 people died when a ruptured gasoline pipeline exploded in Nigeria, engulfing scores of people scooping fuel from the gushing leak, police said Wednesday.
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Attack helicopters battled speedboats full of armed fighters for control of key oil installations. Seven foreigners were abducted from a residential compound, and militants claimed dozens of soldiers were killed. Even by the standards of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region, it has been a bloody week.
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Dozens of people were killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos early on Thursday morning, Nigerian police said on Friday .
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LAGOS (Reuters via SwissInfo) - Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility in five months since the inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had started a peace process to address rebel demands for more regional autonomy in the oil-producing wetlands of southern Nigeria. "Seven people were kidnapped from a supply vessel to the EA field. They are four Nigerians and three expats," said Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the offshore field. He confirmed that the three foreigners were a Briton, a Croat and a Russian.  All other workers have been evacuated from the facility, which has not produced any oil since an earlier militant attack in February 2006. It had been expected to resume production by the middle of next year.
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Armed men seized the son of a local Nigerian chief near Port Harcourt, the west African nation&#39;s oil capital where kidnappings have gained momentum in recent weeks, police said Sunday.