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    Niger group claims attack on China-backed pipeline, threatens more

    June 19, 2024
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    *Map showing Niger’s oil exports pipeline running through Benin Republic.

    Niamey — An armed group opposed to Niger’s ruling junta disabled a section of the country’s PetroChina-funded (601857.SS), opens new tab crude oil pipeline in an attack on Sunday night, it said in a statement.

    The pipeline has a capacity of 90,000 barrel per day (bpd) and extends for nearly 2,000 km (1,243-mile) linking Niger’s Agadem oilfield to Benin’s coast.

    Exports are meant to be loaded under a $400 million deal with oil giant China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC).

    The Patriotic Liberation Front (FPL) said its attack on the pipeline was aimed at pushing Niger’s Chinese partners to cancel the export deal. The FPL formed after the West African country’s July 2023 coup.

    “Failing this, all oil assets will be paralysed in the next few actions,” the FPL said, without providing further detail.

    Niger’s government, PetroChina, CNPC, and pipeline operator West Africa Oil Pipeline (WEPCO) did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    The claimed attack deepens a crisis surrounding the pipeline, whose flows Niger said last Thursday it had shut off due to a border dispute with Benin.

    That came a day after unidentified assailants attacked soldiers guarding the pipeline in southeastern Dosso region. Six soldiers were killed, security sources told Reuters.

    No one has yet claimed responsibility for that attack, which was the first on security forces protecting the pipeline. Jihadist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State operate in the area.

    *Moussa Aksar & David Lewis; Shanghai newsroom; Alessandra Prentice; editing: Bate Felix & Jason Neely – Reuters

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