Exxon Mobil
Corp. is refuting claims by Nigerian oil militants that they have blown up an
Exxon pipeline in Akwa Ibom state.
The Niger
Delta Avengers said on their website that they blew up the Qua Iboe crude oil
export pipeline late Monday.
But Exxon
Mobil spokesman Todd Spitler said Tuesday that there had been no attacks on the
company’s facilities.
The Qua Iboe
crude oil terminal has a capacity of more than 300,000 barrels per day.
Recent attacks
by oil militants who say they want residents of Nigeria’s oil-producing region
to have a greater share of the profits have caused the country to lose its
place as Africa’s top oil producer.
The militants
also say they want all international oil companies to leave the oil-producing
Niger Delta.
(Source: AP)
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