Niger Delta Avengers blows up NNPC Pipeline

Less than 12 hours after it forced Chevron’s Escravo’s oil terminal to declare a force majure,  the Niger Delta Avengers militant group has attacked and blown up a large gas and crude pipeline operated by Nigerian National Petroleum Company.
The attack was carried out near Warri, the commercial capital of Nigeria’s Delta state.
The group said the attact was carried out despite the facr the facility was heavily guarded.

“At 11:45pm on Thursday @NDAvengers blew up other #NNPC Gas and Crude trunkline close to Warri,” the group said on its Twitter feed.