Oil pipeline fire Nigeria’s most notorious militants sabotaging oil infrastructure, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), have said they bombed late on Tuesday the Trans Forcados pipeline, in the third attack in just a week on the pipeline that carries crude oil from the delta to the Shell-operated terminal of the same name. According to the NDA, the latest bomb was a new warning to oil companies to stop repairing damaged oil infrastructure. The attack on Tuesday evening followed a bombing on Trans Forcados in the early hours of the same day. Last week, militants had attacked the pipeline just two days after Trans Forcados, which feeds Shell’s 400,000-bpd export terminal, resumed operations following a July attack. That attack came just hours after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had met with leaders in the Niger Delta to broker some kind of a peace agreement in the restive oil-rich region. Some groups, […]