A militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an oil pipeline operated by a Nigerian subsidiary of Italy’s Eni oil company. It is the second such bombing in Nigeria’s restive delta region in two days. Since the start of the year, the so-called Niger Delta Avengers group has been attacking oil facilities operated by Nigerian subsidiaries of Anglo-Dutch group Shell, US firm Chevron, Eni and other companies. “Three am (0200 GMT) on Friday @NDAvengers blow up the Obi Obi Brass trunk line belonging to Agip Eni,” the militant Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) group wrote on Twitter.# “It is Agip’s major crude oil line in Bayelsa State,” it added, without giving further details. The army has vowed to put and end to the attacks that have had a negative impact on the country’s oil output, which has been reduced to a 20-year low – 1.6 million barrels a […]