Oil: Fires break out along Nigerian pipeline

A Nigerian state oil company official has said that fires have broken out along a pipeline in the south of the country. The statement comes a week after two pipelines in the Niger Delta were attacked by gunmen. So far there has be no news of any casualties.

Reuters reports that on Dec. 20, a suspected dynamite attack on two crude oil pipelines operated by Royal Dutch Shell in neighbouring Rivers state killed 11 people and cut output by 180,000 barrels per day (bpd), pushing up world oil prices.