Niger Delta Watch

(Reuters) The largest oil operator in Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, evacuated expatriate staff dependants from the Niger Delta on Thursday after militants planted a car bomb in a residential compound, the company said.

The withdrawal began hours after armed militants stormed an oil facility operated by France's Total in the delta's Rivers state, killing three police officers.

Shell's pullout involves about 400 foreign family members from residential compounds in Port Harcourt, Warri and Bonny Island.

Labels: Bonny Island, France, Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Royal Dutch Shell, TotalSA, Warri

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(AP) Before dawn Thursday, about a dozen gunmen attacked a Total SA pumping station, killing three security guards. The company shut the 40,000-barrel-a-day facility to ``ensure the total protection of the site,'' spokesman Paul Floren said by phone from Paris.

Gunmen later occupied a facility owned by Eni SpA. In a statement on its Web site, Eni said no injuries or damages were reported at the Tebidaba oil-pumping station, which shut down production. Eighteen local workers were in the facility when the attack occurred.

(Reuters) Two car bombs exploded at oil company compounds in Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt on Monday damaging cars but causing no casualties, authorities said.

The blasts occurred in the car park of a residential compound of Royal Dutch Shell, while the other was on a perimeter wall of a compound of Italian oil company Agip.

There was no immediate impact on oil production.

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(MEND) said in an email to the media adding that a third planned bombing was canceled to avoid high civilian casualties.

Labels: Agip, Eni, MEND, Port Harcourt, Royal Dutch Shell, TotalSA

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