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Nigeria: sabotage is increasing in the southern oil fields
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the Anglo-Dutch oil group is deploring the recent increase in acts of sabotage against its oil pipelines in southern Nigeria.
It indicated that two of its pipelines in the Rivers State have been damaged in three separate incidents between the first and the twelfth of August. «Alleged thieves have drilled holes or sawn” crude oil facilities to “siphon off oil.” Stealing crude oil is frequent in the Niger Delta, crossed by a huge oil pipelines grid, but with a very poor population.
In 2009, the group production was about 629.000 barrels per day, against 850.000 in 2008. Nigeria is the eighth largest oil exporter, but years of violence in the delta had drove the oil production down, and it has since risen, one year later, due to the amnesty offered to the rebel groups. Thus in July, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has reported that the most populous country in Africa has produced 2.1 million barrels per day (bpd). However, the question is for how long the offered amnesty will last with more demanding rebel individuals that grow in the region…?