Royal Dutch Shell has shut three oil flow stations in Nigeria's Niger Delta region after a pipeline was sabotaged.
The spokeswoman for the company 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.
Mend (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) said it was not "directly responsible" for the attack, reports the Reuters news agency.
But an e-mailed statement said: "It was certainly a response to our order to resume hostilities by one of the various freelance groups we endorse."
Nigeria is one of the world's major oil producers but output has been cut by years of unrest in the Niger Delta - the source of its oil.
No comments:
Post a Comment