NIGERIA: Attackers abduct more oil workers in volatile delta

PORT HARCOURT – Gunmen in a speed boat seized two Filipino oil workers in the latest in a spate of attacks targeting oil installations and workers in Nigeria’s oil rich but impoverished Niger delta.

Norway-based oil services company Petroleum Geo-Sciences said the two contract workers hired by the firm were abducted around noon on Tuesday while in a small boat near a jetty used by the company.

“They drove (them) off in a boat and we’ve had no contact with them,” said company spokesman Ola Bosterud.

The security forces have mounted a search to trace the missing oil workers and their abductors, said Navy Captain Obiora Medani, spokesman for the Nigerian navy.

Reuters