The gains made by Nigeria in crude oil export in recent weeks is about to
\nwiped out as the Niger Delta Avengers have blown up five major oil
\npipelines.<\/p>\n
According to the militant group on its Twitter handle, the attacks were
\ncarried out between late Saturday and the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n
The affected\u00a0 pipelines belong to the Nigerian National Petroleum
\nCorporation, NNPC, Chevron Oil and the Nigeria Petroleum Development
\nCorporation major crude trunk line close to Batan flow station in Delta
\nState.<\/p>\n
Also, the Militants claimed that the NNPC crude oil trunk line blown up
\nwas the one that supplies the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company.<\/p>\n
The group claimed:\u00a0 \u201cAt 9:15pm on Friday the\u00a0 @NDAvengers blow up Nigerian
\nNational Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Crude Oil Trunk Line to Warri
\nRefinery.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 1:15am on Sunday @NDAvengers blow up two major Chevron crude oil trunk
\nlines close to Abiteye flow station in Delta state.<\/p>\n
\u201cALL FIVE OPERATIONS WAS CARRIED OUT BY @NDAvengers STRIKE TEAM. WELL DONE
\nSOLDIERS.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 1:15am on Sunday @NDAvengers blow up two major Chevron Oil Wells. WELL
\n7 and WELL 8 close to Abiteye flow station in Delta state,\u201d the Avengers
\ntweeted.<\/p>\n
There has been a lull in the damaging activities of the militants in the
\narea which has pushed up Nigeria\u2019s crude export to 1.9 million barrels per
\nday but with the latest development, there are fears that output might
\nslip down the curve again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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