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/ 18 December 2006
Two explosions hit Nigeria’s oil industry on Monday, industry sources said, moments after a militant group threatened to detonate three car bombs in the Niger Delta. There were no casualties reported in either explosion and no immediate impact on oil output from the world’s eighth largest exporter. The first explosion was from an apparent car bomb.
Six foreign oil workers, kidnapped from a nightclub in Nigeria, were released on Wednesday night after 10 days in captivity, authorities said. The six men — two Britons, an American, German, Irish and Pole — were abducted at gunpoint from a nightclub in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt on August 13.
A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a German contractor last week in Nigeria and demanded the release of two jailed leaders as a condition for his freedom. The group also demanded that the hostage’s employer, construction firm Bilfinger and Berger, provide more infrastructure and jobs to the communities where they work.