Niger Delta Avenger

After claiming responsibility for three attacks overnight on NIgeria’s oil facilities, the Niger Delta rebel group warned Agip/ENI not to repair the damaged pipelines.

The group issued the warning in a message on Twitter.

#AGIP DON'T DARE US (@NDAvengers). pic.twitter.com/1autmMuK0V

— Niger Delta Avengers (@NDAvengers) June 3, 2016

In a press release the NDA said its attacks had brought Nigeria’s oil production to just 800,000 barrels per day (bpd), from 2 million bpd, “without killing a soul”, though they hit infrastructure feeding crude grades already under force majeure.

The ENI pipeline is used to transport Brass River crude. Shell’s Forcados crude oil, where another pipeline was attacked overnight, has been under force majeure since February. The group also hit ENI’s Ogboinbiri-Tebidaba and Clough Creek-Tebidaba pipelines in Bayelsa.

Four grades of Nigeria’s oil – Forcados, Brass River, Bonny Light and Qua Iboe – are under force majeure, though exports of the latter two have continued, and sources said ExxonMobil’s production had climbed back near to 300,000 bpd.

Nigeria’s oil minister, Ibe Kachikwu said on Thursday that production was 1.6 million bpd.

Even if the most recent attacks, which also included oil installations belonging to Chevron under its Escravos grade, took out all exports of the oil associated with them, June production would remain near 1.2 million bpd.