Nigerian Oil Situation Heats Up

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9 oil workers abducted in Nigeria

Saturday, February 18, 2006; Posted: 11:57 a.m. EST (16:57 GMT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Nigerian militants launched a string of attacks on the world's eighth largest oil exporter on Saturday, abducting nine foreign workers from an offshore barge and attacking at least two other facilities.

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"A barge was attacked by several speed boats. There was an exchange of fire and nine foreigners were kidnapped," an oil industry source said, adding that the barge, operated by U.S. oil services company Willbros Group, was operating offshore in the Forcados area of Delta state.

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"Workers in the oil industry are hereby requested to vacate all installations with immediate effect," the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said.

"All pipelines, flowstations and crude loading platforms will be targeted for destruction within the next few hours by our units which entered into Delta state in good numbers."

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/02/18/nigeria.oil.reut/index.html