Militants attacks Chevron Escravos platform in Warri

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(Nigeria) Niger Delta Avengers on Thursday, claimed responsibility for attacked the Okan gas/condensate platform, which is a joint venture between the United States firm, Chevron Nigeria Limited and Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, around Escravos, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.
The facility is currently shut-in by Chevron  and resource have been deployed to monitor the spill.
Chevron produces around 240,000 b/d in Nigeria. It is a joint venture upstream partner with state-owned NNPC and operates offshore fields under production sharing contracts.
According to a statement by the Niger Delta Avengers NDA, spokesman, Col. Madoch Agbinibo, the group has threatened the federal government that the recent deployment of soldiers to the oil-rich region would not deter it from crippling the nation’s economy.
“The high command of the Niger Delta Avengers wants to use this medium to thank strike team 6 for successfully blowing up of the Chevron Valve Platform. And we are ready to protect the Niger Delta people.
“This is what we promised the Nigerian government that since they refused to listen to us we are going to zero the economy of the country.
“As for zeroing the Nigerian economy, we the Niger Delta Avengers are done with Delta State major oil installations. Now we are taking the fight out off the creeks to the Niger Delta. We are taking it to Abuja and Lagos now.”
“We want to pass this message to the all international oil companies operating in the Niger Delta that the Nigeria military can’t protect their facilities. They should talk to the federal government to meet our demands else more mishaps will befall their installations.”
It will be recalled that on May 4, the NDA claimed responsibility for a previous attack on the Shell-operated Forcados oil pipeline in February. That resulted in force majeure on Forcados crude exports."

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