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The hold-up in Nigeria threatens the supplies of the oil

1332 (GMT+04:00) - 30/01/06

 
The sabotage result fires in delta Nigeria where the oil companies headquarters
The sabotage result fires in delta Nigeria where the oil companies headquarters

Lagos, Nigeria ( Cnn ) -   in the newest wave of the acts of violence that target the oil sector in Nigeria which threaten the international oil supplies, about 20 gunmen broke into Saturday the offices of the Korean company of Dayu for the oil services in a harbour " Harkourt " in south of Nigeria delta, and they stole about 300 thousand dollars, according to the region police spokesman .

And unknown gunmen broke into last week company headquarters " it was answered " the Italian Agip of the oil in the same place, where they carried out looting thousands of the dollars, while local reports pointed that nine persons killed between them eight of the police .

But the reports related to the accident of the attack on the offices of the Korean company Saturday did not point to the fall of victims .

Parallel to that, the local government spokesman said in southeastern Nigeria that four foreign hostages were kidnapped 18 days before one of the oil fields belonging to Royal Dutch Shell company, their release took place .

And according to the speaker, the four and they are British and American and Honduran and Bulgarian he was released, an illusion in good health . 

This and the region police opened an investigation for the knowledge of a   if the kidnapping operation was from an execution hardline in a sect " Igaw " the ethnic .

And the group demanded Royal Dutch Shell company   by the release of two of leaders " Igaw " in addition to 1 5 billion dollars of compensation to the local villages about the pollution that inflicted it on it Shell Company is the greatest producers in the delta, according to Reuters Agency .

And the campaign that the movement launched forced Shell Company into the withdrawal of 500 of its employees and the reduction of its production by the rate of 221 thousand barrels daily any what equals ten productions of Nigeria, the eighth biggest source of the oil in the world .

And these operations led   to the hindrance of ten Nigeria's oil production within the framework of a campaign from the acts of violence went by on them six weeks .

 And the campaign that the movement launched forced Shell Company into the withdrawal of 500 of its employees and the reduction of its production by the rate of 221 thousand barrels daily any what equals ten productions of Nigeria, the eighth biggest source of the oil in the world .

 

 


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