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From: allevett	7/27/2006 4:05:59 PM
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Niger Delta Militants Plan 'Massive Attacks' on Oil Industry Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) 7/27/2006 URL: rigzone.com Oil prices in the international market might shoot beyond the current US$75 a barrel if the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) executes its planned attacks on oil installations from August. Jomo Gbomo, MEND spokesman, told Deutsche Press-Agentur in an e-mail message Thursday that "we shall begin massive attacks on the oil industry from August." He said apart from his group, there were other groups in the Niger Delta that would be sabotaging oil installations from time to time, all in a bid to seize control of the region's oil resources from Nigeria. Meanwhile, deputy governor of Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta, Peremobowei Ebebi, said in a telephone interview that the state government uncovered a plot by a militant group to embark on a spate of kidnappings of expatriate oil workers in the state. He said the government is already taking steps to ensure the unnamed group does not succeed. Ebebi was reacting to Wednesday's shutting of some oil wells belonging to the Italian oil company Agip by youths of the Ogboinbiri community in the Southern-Ijaw council area of the state. The armed youths stormed the Ogboinbiri platform of the Italian oil firm in speedboats and chased away soldiers on guard duties at the facility. They claimed that the oil company reneged on a memorandum of understanding signed between it and the community to provide jobs for them. Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Ringim, confirmed the attack and said "I am aware that militants have taken over a flow station in the state. I have sent my men to the area, but they are not back yet." Seizures of oil facilities in the Niger Delta, the kidnapping of expatriate oil workers and sundry other problems have led to the reduction of Nigeria's daily oil production of 2.5 million barrels by at least 20 percent. Oil prices have been on the upward spiral because of the heated situation in the Niger Delta and the crisis in the Middle East. Copyright 2006 dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH

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