MEND - the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta – released a statement yesterday that said all “genuine” militant groups should come together and cripple the Nigerian oil industry “once and for all.”
Nigerian officials have not commented on the statement, which was e-mailed to journalists. MEND and other groups in the Niger […]

In a worrying development, at least two people have been killed in a clash between the Nigerian navy and the militant organization, MEND.  It occurred near an offshore oilfield operated by the Shell oil company.
Militant groups had been observing a five-month ceasefire on attacks against the oil industry to allow for peace talks with the […]

A Darfur rebel group has claimed it has attacked a Sudanese oilfield in the Kordofan region, taking a Canadian and an Iraqi oil worker hostage, according to the BBC.
The group, the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem), said it attacked the facility which is run by a Chinese-led consortium in the Defra oilfield.

It may be bloody on the streets of Burma, but its business as usual for the oil industry.
While Burma’s military junta cracks down on pro-democracy protests, oil companies are quietly jostling for access to the country’s largely untapped natural gas and oil fields.
Just last Sunday - as marches led by Buddhist monks drew thousands in […]

Canada’s Heritage Oil Corporation has denied that its ship was at the center of a clash between Congolese troops and the Ugandan army on Lake Alberta, in which soldiers from both sides were killed.
The company has also challenged a UN official that its oil exploration vessel was escorted out of “Congolese waters” to “avoid […]