Militants are said to have blown up a crude oil pipeline operated by Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC in the Niger Delta.
According to reports, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate group said it had carried out the attack on the the Afiesere-Ekiugbo delivery line on Sunday night.
The line is operated by NPDC, a unit of the NNPC, and Nigerian energy company Shoreline.
The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on energy facilities in the region, cutting production by 700,000 barrels per day.
Last month, the Niger Delta Avengers group, whose attacks on oil pipelines in the southern region crippled crude output