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UK help Nigeria sought to end oil theft

February 20, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

UK help sought to end oil theft Nigeria had asked Britain for help to tackle a multimillion-dollar oil theft business that was run by international crime syndicates, its oil minister said yesterday. Oil bunkering – hacking into pipelines to steal … read more »

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Nigeria Energy Profile: Oil And Gas Development Constrained By Niger Delta Instability

October 17, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By: EIA Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa and has been a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) since 1971. In 2011, Nigeria produced about 2.53 million barrels per day (bbl/d) of total liquids, well … read more »

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Roaring flames on the bight of Biafra

May 25, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Since the demise of Biafra after the civil war in Nigeria, efforts have been made to obliterate the bane from the map and the preferred name of that part of the Atlantic Ocean is the Gulf of Guinea. However, another … read more »

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Iran ‘stops oil exports’ to UK and France

February 20, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry has said, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped … … read more »

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Nigeria’s oil disasters are met by silence

January 11, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

by Michael Keating, The Guardian In 2010 the world watched in horror as the Gulf of Mexico filled with 5m barrels of oil from an undersea leak caused by the careless handling of equipment on the part of BP and … read more »

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Oil spills: Nigerians seek $1bn from Shell

October 21, 2011 by benim

Chicago – A Nigerian tribal king filed a lawsuit in a US court seeking $1bn from Royal Dutch Shell to compensate for decades of pollution that sickened his people and damaged their lands, his lawyer said on Thursday. The suit … read more »

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Gabon targets expat oil workers without papers

September 30, 2011 by benim

Gabon has launched a crackdown on expatriate oil workers who do not have work permits, spurred on by a powerful union that has given the government two weeks to safeguard more jobs for locals. Employers in the sector are complaining … read more »

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Judges refuse to dismiss Nigerian terror case in Netherlands

September 5, 2011 by benim

Judges refused on Monday to dismiss a terrorist case against a Nigerian activist charged with conspiring to attack oil pipelines in his homeland as well as people smuggling and fraud. Sunny Ofehe, a Netherlands-based activist who campaigns to bring peace … read more »

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Shell faces first Nigerian oil spill claims in UK

August 4, 2011 by benim

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed that a Nigerian community impacted by its oil spills can seek compensation in a British court, lawyers in the case have said, potentially opening itself up to bigger future financial and reputational damages. Shell said … read more »

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27,580 barrels of Shell oil spilt in Nigeria in 2010

May 27, 2011 by benim

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell said Friday that theft, sabotage and operational reasons caused 27,580 barrels of oil to spill from its facilities in Nigeria last year. “Sabotage and crude oil theft was the cause of 22,310 barrels spilled from SPDC … read more »

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Shell restarts production at major oil field off Nigeria

April 14, 2011 by benim

Shell has resumed production at its Bonga oil field off the coast of Nigeria after shutting the 200,000 barrel-per-day facility in February for maintenance, the company said Thursday. Shell “resumed production at Bonga yesterday after completing the scheduled statutory inspection … read more »

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Nigerian military says razed 500 illicit oil refineries

March 6, 2011 by benim

YENAGOA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military said it destroyed 500 illicit oil refineries dotted along the creeks of the southern Niger Delta in a six-hour weekend raid. Around 100 troops backed by gunboats and helicopters flattened the makeshift refineries in the … read more »

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Nigerian army tackles oil smugglers

March 6, 2011 by benim

Illegal oil refineries are on the rise in the Niger Delta, encouraged by unemployment and the increasing price of oil. Nigerian soldiers have destroyed nearly 500 illegal oil refineries in the Niger Delta in a bid to stop the smuggling … read more »

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Nigeria: 14 killed in fresh Jos violence

January 27, 2011 by benim

Renewed violence on Wednesday in Bauchi State took 10 lives, left several others injured, just as 14 died on Thursday in the last mayhem on the Plateau, where the Special Task Force (STF) arrested 29 armed Fulani herdsmen. Among those … read more »

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Houses, mosques burn after Nigeria billiards dispute

January 27, 2011 by benim

Overnight clashes between Christians and Muslims sparked by a dispute over a billiards table left four people dead as well as 50 houses and five mosques burnt in central Nigeria, police said Thursday. Meanwhile in a separate set of incidents … read more »

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Nigeria clashes have killed 200 in past month

January 27, 2011 by benim

More than 200 people have been killed in a month of deadly sectarian violence in central Nigeria, a human rights monitoring group said Thursday. The victims, including children, have been hacked to death, burned alive, dragged off buses and have … read more »

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Dutch lawmakers grill Shell on Nigerian operations

January 27, 2011 by benim

Executives of Royal Dutch Shell have defended their much criticized operations in Nigeria, but say sabotage and ineffective government prevent the oil giant from cleaning up environmental disasters. In a parliamentary hearing Wednesday in The Hague, Amnesty International and environmental … read more »

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Nigeria’s MEND Group Says It’s Planning `Ferocious’ Attack on Oil Industry

January 18, 2011 by benim

Nigeria’s main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, said it’s planning a “ferocious” attack on the country’s downstream oil industry soon. Residents living close to depots that store petroleum products such as aviation fuel, diesel, … read more »

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Wikileaks: Oil giant Shell had “access to everything” in Nigeria

December 9, 2010 by benim

Royal Dutch Shell had infiltrated key Nigerian ministries, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich nation, the Guardian said, citing U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. The oil giant’s top executive in Nigeria, Ann Pickard, would have … read more »

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Ken Saro-wiwa, The Niger Delta And Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill

November 12, 2010 by benim

One image that stood out for me during the recent Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in the USA was the image of Congressman Charlie Melancon crying that ‘all he ‘knew’ and ‘loved were at risk.’ It was his crying that … read more »

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