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The Anglo-Dutch supermajor Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it has shut three oil flow stations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region after a local militant group sabotaged a pipeline.
The BBC website reported that Trans Ramos oil pipeline was leaking after it had been sabotaged, but the leak had now been stopped.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has said it is not responsible for the attack, but the group recently ended a truce it had declared in December 2009.
Attacks by MEND in Nigeria are believed to have cost the African state millions of dollars in lost revenues.
Shell has also announced recently that it has sold three licenses in the country to a Nigerian consortium for an undisclosed figure.
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