Nigeria's state-run oil firm has shut two refineries in the southern city of Port Harcourt and Kaduna in the north because sabotage to crude ßÏÀÖÔ°.
The plants were shut on Sunday because of "breaches" to the Bonny-Okrika supply line to Port Harcourt and the Escravos-Warri pipeline to Kaduna, the company said in an emailed statement. ??
Nigeria's minister of power Babatunde Fashola said yesterday the country was losing some US$2.3 million/d to attacks on gas facilities and lost electricity production. ??
Supporters of former Niger Delta militant Government Ekpemupolo, also known as "Tompolo", are believed to have been behind a series of strikes on ßÏÀÖÔ° in Delta state at the weekend. ??
A court in Lagos last Thursday ordered his arrest on theft and money laundering charges totalling more than US$175 million. ??
The four facilities in Port Harcourt, the Delta town of Warri and Kaduna have a combined capacity to process 445 000 bod of crude. They currently operate at a fraction of this capacity.
It is unclear how long the refineries will be shut.
The attacks follow years of relative calm in the country's oil-producing region after a 2009 amnesty halted a spate of attacks on oil installations and kidnappings of expatriate workers.
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