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Saboteurs have blown up an oil pipeline operated by Italy's Agip in the southern Niger Delta according to military sources. Agip officials have so far not commented on the incident, and it is not clear if there has been any impact on oil production.
The commander of the joint military taskforce in the western Niger Delta, Brigadier-General Wuyep Rimtip, said the pipeline had been attacked between the villages of Ogulagha and Odimodi in Delta state, an area whose ownership is disputed by the communities living there Attacks on oil production facilities and kidnappings of foreign workers for ransom are common in the region.
Oil output in Nigeria, the world's eighth biggest oil exporter, has been reduced by about a fifth since 2006, when militant activists started a campaign of violent sabotage to push for their neglected districts to be improved.
Pipelines are also frequently attacked and ruptured by criminal gangs engaged in a multi-million dollar trade in stolen oil. The crude is transported on barges to tankers waiting in Nigerian coastal waters, before being mixed in with legitimate cargo and sold on the international market.
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