Nigeria oil pipeline damaged in attack
January 31, 2010 · Posted in News
By BBC
Royal Dutch Shell has shut three oil flow stations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region after a pipeline was sabotaged, a company spokeswoman has said.
She said Saturday’s leak on the Trans Ramos oil pipeline was confirmed “to have been caused by sabotage”. The leak was later stopped.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
It came shortly after Nigeria’s militant group Mend said it was ending the truce it declared last October.
An alleged group spokesman said Mend did not believe the government would restore control of resources to local people.
Mend has demanded that residents be given a greater share in profits from oil resources and land.
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