A community group in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta said on
Wednesday it had shut down an oil facility operated by Eni’s Agip in
Bayelsa state’s Nembe 5 region following a dispute with the company that
included the provision of jobs for locals.
The company did not respond to a request for comment.
The group, which called itself the Agrisaba Oil and Gas Committee,
said production was shut down on Tuesday evening after it failed to
resolve a number of disputes with the firm, including over the provision
of jobs for locals.
“The community has therefore decided that the facility be shut down
till further notice until such a time that all these knotty issues have
been resolved,” it said in a statement.
Oil production in the delta, in the southeast of Africa’s biggest
crude exporter and largest economy, has often been disrupted by locals
frustrated at the lack of development in their communities.
Last week, protesters shut down crude oil production at two flow
stations of the Nembe oilfield over what they said was the sell-off of
the region’s energy wealth without the approval of its inhabitants.
The protesters, mostly young men, arrived in about 30 speedboats and
climbed the fence at one station with no resistance, and dodged security
at the other.
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