Niger Delta under attack again on Nigerian oil pipeline which would result to losing 4,000 barrels per day from the outcome of the damage.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta or MEND, which had been responsible for years of attacks until a 2009 truce, according to Reuters, which said thousands of militants had given up their arms under an amnesty that accompanied the truce. Supposed militants in Nigeria today claimed responsibility for an attack on an oil pipeline in the Niger Delta that is owned by the Italian company ENI or Integrated Energy company but the government said this was in fact the work of criminal gangs, according to Reuters.