Nigeria’s main rebel group said it destroyed several major oil pipelines in southern Nigeria early on Monday in response to a military offensive.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it had put "out of operation" a major Chevron oil storage facility by destroying the pipelines and flow stations that feed it. "Fighters from MEND destroyed major trunk lines," the group said in a statement emailed to media. A spokesman for US oil giant Chevron said the company was "assessing the situation."
MEND has staged several attacks on international oil facilities in southern Nigeria as part of its campaign to get what it calls a fairer distribution of the region’s oil wealth to local people.
Source: The Times
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