Nigerian Militants Say Every Oil Producer At Risk

ABUJA (Reuters) – Militants behind a string of attacks aimed at disrupting the Nigerian oil industry said they intended to target all producers in the country in a message where they singled out U.S.-based Chevron.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, which has caused major disruption at Royal Dutch Shell and is holding four foreign oil workers hostage, said it has also attacked installations run by France’s Total and Italy’s Agip, a unit of ENI.
“We have decided not to limit our attacks to Shell oil as our ultimate aim is to prevent Nigeria from exporting oil,” the militant group said in an email statement to Reuters.

So far, Shell is the only major operator to have said it suffered at the hands of the militants, who demand greater control over the delta’s enormous oil wealth for the impoverished local people.

Reuters