Agip pipeline damage An armed group seeking to secede from Nigeria, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), continued their attacks against oil pipelines in the west African nation on Friday with the bombing of a conduit controlled by Eni’s Agip subsidiary. Eni has yet to provide an immediate response to the attack, which comes just a day after the attack against an oil pipeline run by state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and a day after Shell Nigeria’s decision to shut down activity on its Trans Niger Pipeline following the discovery of a leak. Shell’s pipeline suspension is expected to cut some 130,000 barrels per day of crude oil export at a cost of around US$6.7 million daily. The cause of the leak has yet to be made public. The NDA attributed themselves as the perpetrators of the Eni-pipeline incident that took place in Bayelsa State of the Niger Delta […]