Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:19am GMT
LAGOS (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it was still checking its oil operations in the Niger Delta after militants said they had launched three attacks against its facilities at the weekend.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said on Sunday it had attacked Shell pipelines at Adamakiri and Kula, both in Rivers state in the eastern Niger Delta.
It said it had also attacked the Afremo offshore oilfields, which it believed were operated by Shell, and which it said were 14 miles from an export terminal through which crude oil from Shell’s Forcados fields is pumped.