US oil group Exxon Mobil on Thursday briefly shut its 500 000 barrels-per-day oil export terminal in southeast Nigeria after protestors broke into the site, officials said. In London and New York, oil prices rose because the reports of the closure. “A group of protesters on Thursday morning forced their way into the Qua Iboe terminal, Ibeno, and attempted to vandalise company property,” a company representative said. The company did not say what the protesters were asking for. Company facilities are regularly targetted by local communities protesting over a lack of development in the region and environmental degradation – AFP