The Niger Delta Avengers said early Friday morning it has blown up Shell’s forcados 48 export pipeline, one of Nigeria’s biggest export terminals, which was under repair after the group Continue Reading
The Niger Delta Avengers militant group has claimed responsibility for three new attacks on Nigeria’s oil infrastructure, promising to cut production to zero. The attacks are the latest in a Continue Reading
The Niger Delta Avengers militant group has claimed three new attacks on Nigeria’s battered oil infrastructure, promising to drag production down to “zero”. The attacks are the latest in a Continue Reading
A militant group waging war on oil installations in the Niger Delta said they can bring regional production down significantly without bloodshed. The Niger Delta Avengers surfaced earlier this year Continue Reading
Nigeria began the cleaning up of oil spills as old as 50 years in the Ogoni district of the southern Niger River delta on Thursday, in line with recommendations by Continue Reading
Some of Chevron’s highest producing assets in the Niger Delta were blown up early Wednesday, the regional militant group Niger Delta Avengers claimed on social media. With the heavy presence Continue Reading
Nigerian oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said on Thursday he saw “open-mindedness” in the OPEC meeting, but did not know what the outcome would be. Oil ministers from the Organization Continue Reading
The Niger Delta Avengers in the early hours of today blew up two major oil wells located at Dibi in Warri South West local government area of Delta State. The Continue Reading
Nigeria’s oil-dependent economy is under siege from militants who are targeting oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta. President Muhammadu Buhari is to make his first visit to the Continue Reading
A militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers issued a warning to oil companies working in the region that its campaign is about to get bloody. The Niger Delta Continue Reading
Niger Delta Militants The resurgence of Niger Delta militancy has reached the level of an all-out renewal of conflict that Nigeria’s security forces appear incapable of stopping, and force majeure Continue Reading
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has given the nation’s central bank the go-ahead to introduce flexibility in the naira exchange rate, his spokesman said on Monday. “The president is opposed to Continue Reading
Militants blew up strategic gas and crude pipelines belonging to Shell and Agip on Saturday in an increasingly fierce campaign that has chopped Nigeria’s oil production in half, militants and Continue Reading
The nation’s crude oil fortunes took another downward plunge, yesterday, following attacks by Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on pipelines close to Escravos Tank Farm at Ciera creek, near Abiteye community, Continue Reading
In two simultaneous attacks late on Thursday, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDV) have targeted a state-run crude pipeline near the Batan oilfield. The oil and gas pipeline is near the Continue Reading
The new militant group, Niger Delta Avenger, on Thursday claimed responsibility for another attack on a gas pipeline belonging to Chevron in Delta state. The group announced the attack on Continue Reading
A militant group in the Niger Delta said it targeted a Chevron pipeline in the region after the company failed to heed a warning issued in mid-May. We Warned #Chevron Continue Reading
Nigeria’s amnesty program for armed militants in the country’s key oil and gas producing Niger River delta region needs restructuring, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Emmanuel Kachikwu said, as Continue Reading
Nigeria may fail to deliver all of the spending promised in this year’s budget in light of “the current economic realities,” Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said. Approval of the 2016 Continue Reading
Nigeria owes airlines more than half a billion dollars in outstanding air fares as the oil-price slump depletes reserves of the U.S. currency and prompts the government to limit the Continue Reading
Italian energy company Eni confirmed Monday that some of its infrastructure in Nigeria was once again the target of a militant attack. A spokesperson for the company confirmed through email Continue Reading
An Italian Eni pipeline has been attacked again, for the fourteenth time this year, putting 4,200 barrels of oil per day of Eni production offline amid a resurgence in militancy. Continue Reading
There are strong indications that former President Goodluck Jonathan may have gone into temporary self-exile in Cote d’Ivoire, following reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may arrest Continue Reading
Nigeria has been dethroned as Africa’s largest oil producer. Nigeria’s oil production is now below that of Angola after various attacks on energy infrastructure by a new militant group called Continue Reading
Nigerian militants have carried out another attack on a pipeline in the Niger Delta region, detonating explosives at a section of the Escravos natural gas pipeline in Warri South West Continue Reading
Crude production fell to 2.11m barrels a day from 2.18m Nigeria’s economy risks falling into recession after it shrank in the first quarter as oil output slumped and the manufacturing, Continue Reading
Shell may be losing almost 50,000 barrels a day, says Rystad Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. are the international oil companies most exposed to violence in the Continue Reading
The Nigerian army has arrested several suspected members of a militant group called the “Niger Delta Avengers” (NDA), thought to be behind recent attacks on oil pipelines in the south. Continue Reading
Motorists queue to buy petrol at a fuel station in Ahaoda in Nigeria’s oil state in the Delta region, December 6, 2012. The growing fleet of tankers stuck off Nigeria Continue Reading
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), the new face of violent agitation in the oil-rich Niger Delta, yesterday issued a two-week ultimatum to owners and operators of oil concessions in the Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil said a drilling rig damaged some of its pipelines in Nigeria. The incident is the latest blow for Nigeria’s oil sector, which has been plagued by a series Continue Reading
The Niger Delta Avengers militant group issued a two-week ultimatum to oil companies operating in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta region, warning companies to shut down or risk attack, the Continue Reading
Damage to a pipeline has reduced supplies of Nigeria’s benchmark Qua Iboe crude oil, two traders said on Thursday, the latest setback for Africa’s top producer that has pushed output Continue Reading
Nigerian military high command Wednesday ruled out engaging militants sabotaging oil production facilities in the Niger Delta, saying it would rather deploy “every available resources to deal decisively” with the Continue Reading
In defiance of President Muhammadu Buhari’s order for security forces to curtail militants’ violence in the South South geo political zone of the country, the Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF), Continue Reading
Barely 24 hours after reports indicated the possibility of partial deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector, and days the country had a breather from scarcity, long queues have resurfaced at Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A -0.20 % PLC on Wednesday said its exports of Nigerian crude oil had been significantly disrupted, adding to a slew of stoppages that have knocked out Continue Reading
The Resilience of Oil Nation’s crude output reduced by about 400,000 barrels a day At least a fifth of Nigerian oil production, equivalent to almost 400,000 barrels a day, has Continue Reading
Nigeria raised the price cap for gasoline 67 percent as President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration moved to tackle months of fuel shortages in the OPEC-member country. Gasoline will now sell for Continue Reading
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari demanded on Wednesday that Britain return assets held there by corrupt Nigerians, pointing the finger back at London after Britain’s prime minister suggested Nigeria was “fantastically Continue Reading
Nigerian Pipeline Attacked The oil markets have suddenly been hit with a multitude of unexpected supply disruptions, the largest of which comes from the more than 1 million barrels per Continue Reading
There are indications that the Federal Government will abandon its price modulation policy this week and embrace deregulation in order to allow private marketers resume importation and sell at profitable Continue Reading
Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, though it’s plagued with risks as much of the industry is in the conflict-prone Niger Delta, analysis finds. The U.S. Energy Information Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell latest to come under attack in Nigeria from a militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI ABUJA, Nigeria, May 9 (UPI) Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has evacuated nonessential staff from one of its Nigerian oil fields amid mounting militancy in the country’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. The company has reduced staff Continue Reading
Young men became entangled in a swirl of flying fists. Gas station workers swatted away boys hoping to fill their plastic cans. A mother with a sleeping baby in her Continue Reading
Nigeria is suffering a worsening bout of oil disruption that has pushed production to the lowest in 20 years, as attacks against facilities in the energy-rich but impoverished nation increase Continue Reading
Militant group the Niger Delta Avengers said it’s knocked Chevron operations offline in the region after attacking oil and gas installations. Photo by Lilac Mountain/Shutterstock ABUJA, Nigeria, May 6 (UPI) Continue Reading
Normalcy has returned to most filling stations in Abuja as the long fuel queues that characterized them in the past months have eased. But the scarcity of petrol is still Continue Reading
Militants in the Niger Delta yesterday blew up the Chevron Valve Platform located on the high sea near Escravos in Warri, Delta State in a renewed attack on oil installations Continue Reading
