Nigeria: Total Confirms Botched Attack On Facility

27 May 2009

Lagos — Operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) yesterday repelled an attack on an offshore drilling platform operated by French oil major, Total, as suspected militants opened fire on the facility.

This is coming as the Italian oil giant, Eni, lifted the force majeure it declared on its Brass River export terminal in Brass Island in Bayelsa State.

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