The Niger Delta Avengers militant group has warned that it will take Nigeria oil output to zero as it confirmed 3 overnight attacks on oil installations.
The militant group said via it’s twitter feed that it had blown up a pipeline in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state owned by Italy’s ENI, hours after attacks on another ENI pipeline as well as one belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC).
“At about 3:30am our (@NDAvengers) strike team blew up the Brass to Tebidaba Crude oil line in Bayelsa,” the group said on a Twitter feed it uses to claim attacks.
The pipeline is used to transport Brass River crude, which was placed under force majeure after an attack last month, to an export terminal.
Hours earlier, the group said it blew up the Ogboinbiri-Tebidaba and Clough Creek-Tebidaba pipelines in Bayelsa and a Shell Forcados export pipeline. That grade has been under force majeure since an attack on a sub-sea pipeline in February.
Because the attacks were on infrastructure for oil streams already under force majeure, the immediate impact on Nigeria’s exports was limited. The minister of petroleum said on Thursday that production was close to 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd).
ENI is yet to give any statement on the development as the spokesman for the SPDC, which operates the Forcados line, said the company was “investigating reports of an attack on its pipeline in the Western Niger Delta.”
