From Voice Of America:Nigerian military activity in the troubled oil-producing Niger Delta has intensified following allegations by the army claiming a plot to attack a Chevron oil facility and pipelines in the Niger Delta.
In a statement, the military said troops have been placed on maximum alert to repel attacks on Chevron's Abiteye flow station and pipelines in Delta state. It blamed oil thieves, who are angered by the military's seizure of 24 barges carrying stolen crude last month, for the plot.
Royal Dutch Shell, which has been the prime target of a three-year campaign of attacks on the country's oil industry, says it is unable to fulfill delivery commitments due to explosions last week on a key pipelines feeding the Escravos export terminal.
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