Niger Delta Militants Claim More Attacks on Nigerian Oil Infrastructure
July 05 2016 - 7:18AM
Dow Jones News
By Miriam Malek
Militants from the Niger Delta in Nigeria, known as the Niger
Delta Avengers, claimed several attacks on Nigerian oil
infrastructure early Tuesday.
In a statement on the group's website, the militants said they
blew up a Chevron-owned well, a manifold owned by a subsidiary of
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and two crude oil trunk
lines belonging to NNPC.
The group deleted their Twitter account recently, which used to
be its main vessel for reporting attacks.
The Nigerian government had previously confirmed that a
cease-fire agreement had been reached with the militant group,
which had helped restore oil output from around one million barrels
a day to close to two million barrels a day.
The attacks have helped support oil prices close to the $50 a
barrel mark in recent weeks, with curbed supply prompting investors
to hope that the oil market was likely to rebalance in the second
half of this year.
The reports of Tuesday's attacks had little effect on oil
prices, which were recently trading down by around 2%.
Write to Miriam Malek at Miriam.Malek@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 05, 2016 08:03 ET (12:03 GMT)
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