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Rash of oil spills in the southeast

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    A rash of oil spills coupled with communal and industrial disputes have disrupted crude oil production by three transnational in the Niger Delta, southeastern Nigeria, industry sources said on Friday.

    US multinational ExxonMobil Corp’s Nigerian subsidiary on Thursday shut its Qua Iboe oil export terminal after it was besieged by protesters from the local Eket community who accused the company of neglect.

    Another US company, Chevron Corp, reported on Thursday that a faulty valve on one of its pipelines had caused the leakage of an estimated 140 barrels of crude near its Escravos operational base. And a strike at Royal Dutch/Shell’s Yorla Oilfield in Ogoniland has delayed the cleaning of a spill that occurred there last week.

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