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Barge With Stolen Oil Sinks In Nigerian Waters by blacksta(m): 10:30am On May 13, 2009
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Barge with stolen oil sinks in Nigerian waters

* Reuters, Tuesday May 12 2009

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, May 12 (Reuters) - A barge carrying 2,000 tonnes of allegedly stolen crude oil has sunk off the coast of Nigeria's Niger Delta, causing some environmental damage, a military spokesman said on Tuesday.
The boat sank near the Forcados oil terminal, operated by Royal Dutch Shell's joint venture with state-run oil major NNPC, in Delta state late on Sunday.
"Our men have impounded a vessel used by bunkerers to siphon crude from oil installations in the Niger Delta," said Colonel Rabe Abubakar, spokesman for the military task force in the Niger Delta.
"The vessel discharged its crude contents into the river and the spillage is causing damage to the environment. The spill has not been contained," he added.
The military said it was investigating the matter, but no one has been arrested yet. Nigeria is the world's eighth biggest exporter of crude oil but thieves take a sizeable proportion of its output by drilling into pipelines or hijacking barges loaded with oil, a type of theft known locally as "bunkering."

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