MILITANTS in Nigeria have blown up an oil flow station belonging to the Shell company in the Niger Delta, causing it to cut some of its production.
It is the fifth attack on the oil industry in recent weeks, reducing output and pressuring global prices.
It is not yet clear which group was responsible for the attack.
Several previous ones have been blamed on supporters of the militant leader Henry Okah, who is currently awaiting trial on treason charges.
The attack came a day after a Nigerian federal court ruled Mr Okah, from the rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), should be tried in secret.
Shell accounts for around half of Nigeria's 2.1 million barrels per day of oil output, and has already been forced to cut production because of a pipeline bombing last month.
"A few oil delivery lines are affected and some oil has spilled into the environment," a Shell spokesman said after the latest attack.
"We are mobilising containment booms to stop the spread of oil and have also shut in some production volumes."
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Omugabe • dziva@sanandresano.com Subject: Africa for Africans -- LOOK INWARD & 'LOOK EAST' ZIM, PATRIOTS! Sun, 04 May 2008 15:36:34 • Unfortunately the indigenous people of Nigerian Delta are left little choice but to FORCIBLY drive the racist foreign thieves out of their indigenous space.
What the wicked western companies are doing in the Nigerian Delta IS CRIMINAL!
The theft of indigenous resources and indigenous wealth, the pollution of land, pollution of water, pollution of air, pollution of life forms, and the pollution of African bodies in the Nigerian Delta ARE JUST PLAIN CRIMINAL!
And so, one way to deal with relentless acts of criminality is to EMPLOY FORCE against the racist Europeans and their African apologists, who don't give a damn about the well being of those unfortunate people of the Nigerian Delta!
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