{"id":199909,"date":"2007-06-19T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/nigeria-gunmen-occupy-oil-installation\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:05:00","slug":"nigeria-gunmen-occupy-oil-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/nigeria-gunmen-occupy-oil-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Gunmen occupy oil installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are at or near peak oil, and even minor disturbances can cause major spikes in prices.<\/p>\n<p>We are in for a bumpy ride.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/newstex\/AFX-0013-17541146.htm\">Nigeria: Gunmen occupy oil installation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">une 18, 2007: 09:18 AM EST<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Jun. 18, 2007 (AFX International Focus) &#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) &#8211; Unidentified gunmen have occupied an oil pipeline switching center in Nigeria and are preventing local workers and security forces from leaving, company officials said Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Some two dozen Nigerian workers and soldiers are being held after the attack Sunday on a flowstation in southern Bayelsa state, Italian energy giant Eni Spa (NYSE:E) said in a statement. No injuries were reported, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The company statement didn&#8217;t say if crude output had been curtailed and a spokesman in Nigeria had no information on the attack. Government officials weren&#8217;t immediately available for comment. Eni operates in Nigeria through its Agip subsidiary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are at or near peak oil, and even minor disturbances can cause major spikes in prices. We are in for a bumpy ride. Nigeria: Gunmen occupy oil installation une 18, 2007: 09:18 AM EST Jun. 18, 2007 (AFX International Focus) &#8212; LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) &#8211; Unidentified gunmen have occupied an oil pipeline switching center &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,978,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-politics","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}