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02/06/2006
Oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
Eight oil workers, including six Britons, have been kidnapped from an offshore oil rig in Nigeria, it has been reported.
It is understood that six Britons, a Canadian and an American were taken hostage from the Buldford Dolphin rig in the early hours of Friday morning.
Fred Olsen Energy, the company which owns the rig, said that work at the rig had now been suspended.
The kidnapping follows a series of attacks on foreign oil interests by rebel groups in Nigeria. which is Africa's largest exporter of oil.
A group called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) has been carrying out a series of attacks on oil plants and pipelines and it renewed its threat to continue to attack oil installations earlier this year unless there was more local control of oil revenues, as well as compensation for pollution.
Foreign oil workers have also been kidnapped in the country in the past.
It has been estimated that Nigeria's oil production output has dropped by almost 25% because of Mend's activities.
The Foreign Office confirmed that it was aware of the reports of the kidnapping and were looking into them.
(KMcA)
It is understood that six Britons, a Canadian and an American were taken hostage from the Buldford Dolphin rig in the early hours of Friday morning.
Fred Olsen Energy, the company which owns the rig, said that work at the rig had now been suspended.
The kidnapping follows a series of attacks on foreign oil interests by rebel groups in Nigeria. which is Africa's largest exporter of oil.
A group called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) has been carrying out a series of attacks on oil plants and pipelines and it renewed its threat to continue to attack oil installations earlier this year unless there was more local control of oil revenues, as well as compensation for pollution.
Foreign oil workers have also been kidnapped in the country in the past.
It has been estimated that Nigeria's oil production output has dropped by almost 25% because of Mend's activities.
The Foreign Office confirmed that it was aware of the reports of the kidnapping and were looking into them.
(KMcA)
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