Two car bombs hit Nigerian oil company compounds

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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Two_car_bombs_hit_Nigerian_oil_compounds.html?siteSect=143&sid=7361049&cKey=1166462588000

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded at oil company compounds in Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt on Monday damaging cars but causing no casualties, authorities said.

The blasts occurred in the car park of a residential compound of Royal Dutch Shell, while the other was on a perimeter wall of a compound of Italian oil company Agip.

There was no immediate impact on oil production.

"The other two bombings were directed at Shell ... and Agip," the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in an email to the media adding that a third planned bombing was cancelled to avoid high civilian casualties

[FogerRox]

1. Interesting.... thanks.

[Porcupine]

2. Expect to see gas prices rise on this news.

Right now the oil companies are going to use any and all negative press to push the price of gas up to the $3++ levels we were paying last May. Setting off car bombs in your own parking lots seems kind of lame but watch the prices climb anyway.

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