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Crude oil production in Nigeria was cut by 150,000 barrels per day after two major pipelines in the Niger Delta were sabotaged by militants earlier this week, according to state-run oil company NNPC.
Responsibilty for the attacks was claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which has been leading a campaign of violence against the oil sector since 2006.
Damage to the two Royal Dutch Shell operated pipelines, which are connected to the Bonny export terminal, cut oil production from the world's eighth largest exporter and helped support the price of oil globally.
An NNPC official confirmed that two pipelines were sabotaged at Kula and at Rumuekpe, located around 30 miles west of Port Harcourt. The Trans-Niger pipeline was also ruptured at Rumuekpe.
Shell has only confirmed the attack on its Nembe Creek pipeline, reporting it had lost 40,000 barrels per day of its equity production following the attack, but declined to comment regarding the attack on the Trans-Niger pipeline.
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