Nigeria raid on Shell oil station
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Nigeria oil militants take control of an oil installation operated by Shell in the oil-rich southern Nigeria.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta at dawn on Thursday, kidnapping four foreign workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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Gunmen seized three eastern European workers in the latest kidnapping to hit Nigeria's southern oil region, police said Monday. The men were abducted late Sunday in the region's main city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State police spokeswoman Irejua Barasua said.
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Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell has evacuated non-essential staff from two flow stations in the Niger delta, where government forces have been attacking rebel militia, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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About 20 Nigerians  working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted  during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying  oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday.
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Nigerian police said a Dutch oil worker was kidnapped by armed men Thursday morning from a Royal Dutch Shell gas plant, the latest in a spate of hostage-taking in the country&#039;s oil-rich southern delta.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - One hostage was killed and two wounded on Wednesday when Nigerian troops launched a rescue attempt to free seven foreign oil workers abducted from an offshore oilfield, military and industry sources said.
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Heavyily armed rebels seized a Briton, a Croat, a Russian and four Nigerians from an oil rig run after a three-hour gunbattle Sunday off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.
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At least seven foreign oil workers were kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry sources said.
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Foreign oil companies have increased security precautions amid fears of attacks by rebels in Nigeria&#39;s Niger Delta region. A group known as the Niger Delta People&#39;s Volunteer Force says it will attack foreign oil workers.
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Nigerian oil militants say they have seized four foreigners and threaten more attacks ahead of an Opec summit.
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Nigerian militants and troops engaged in  a major firefight near an oil pumping station operated by Royal  Dutch Shell in the eastern part of the Niger Delta on  Wednesday, militants said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Hundreds of unarmed  Nigerian villagers, including women and children, seized three  oil platforms operated by multinational oil companies on  Sunday, shutting 90,000 barrels per day of production in a  dispute over jobs.
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At least five Nigerian soldiers are killed in an attack by armed men in boats on an oil facility in the Niger Delta.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage, security and industry sources said on Friday.
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OIL giant Royal Dutch/Shell has evacuated two platforms in Nigeriaâs southern region, following clashes between troops and militia fighters.