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Byline: AP Khartoum -- Nine Chinese oil workers were abducted in an oil-rich region of southwestern Sudan in the latest attack on China's interests in the African country, officials said [...]

A Dutchman abducted last week while working on an unfinished Shell gas plant in the violent oil-producing Niger Delta has been freed, said his employer Royal Boskalis Westminster. Gunmen seized […]

Militants behind attacks aimed at Nigeria's oil exports said they will strike at all producers in the country, in a message singling out Chevron, based in the United States. The […]

The U.N. human rights chief has called for an independent investigation into the police crackdown on striking oil workers in Kazakhstan last December in which at least 15 people died [...]

The largest guerrilla group in Colombia has denied reports that it kidnapped 10 foreign oil workers on Thursday in the Amazon region of Ecuador, further clouding the fate of the […]

Members of the largest guerrilla group in Colombia kidnapped five American and five other foreign oil workers today in the Amazon region of Ecuador and hijacked a helicopter to take […]

Peru's first significant hostage crisis in nearly a decade entered its third day on Wednesday as security forces struggled to rescue up to 38 natural gas workers from the hands [...]

Shining Path rebels brazenly kidnapped dozens of workers in Peru's natural gas industry on Monday before letting most of them go hours later in a remote jungle, officials and local [...]

At least 11 Colombian oil workers were seized by an unidentified armed group as they worked on a pipeline near the border with Venezuela, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said [...]

In a roadside massacre, Iraqi gunmen mowed down and killed 15 Iranians building a pipeline to bring Iranian gas to Iraqi electricity generating plants. The gunmen also killed three Iraqis [...]

Nigeria's militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) has released six foreigners seized last Friday during an armed raid on the Eni-operated Mystras offshore oil production vessel [...]

A Nigerian employee of Eni affiliate Agip was abducted in the Niger Delta Monday. The abduction followed the evacuation of hundreds of nonessential offshore oil workers by US-based Chevron at [...]

The operators of Nigeria's 50,000 b/d Okono-Okpoho offshore oil field have declared force majeure, Reuters reported Friday. Terminal operators Saipem of Italy and Netherlands-based SBM Offshore stopped loadings at the [...]

Nigerian gunmen killed two local security officials and seized 19 foreign oil workers--including eight contractors, who were later released--from an offshore oil platform in two separate attacks in the Niger [...]

Armed robbers in Nigeria have killed three local policemen in an attack on Total's Obagi oil installation, 43 miles northwest of Port Harcourt, a Total spokesman said Thursday. The assault [...]

One of seven foreign oil workers taken hostage Wednesday from an Italian oil ship off the coast of southern Nigeria was killed and another injured during a rescue attempt by [...]

Protesters in Ecuador's Amazon region seized oil installations operated by Chinese consortium Andes Petroleum, taking 40 workers hostage and slashing its crude output, the company said on Friday. Protesters often [...]

Nigerian oil unions decided on Wednesday to stage a 'warning strike' from next Wednesday lasting two or three days to protest against insecurity in the Niger Delta, union leader said. [...]

A Colombian rebel group kidnapped two engineers and a helicopter pilot, who were part of a team conducting seismographic oil exploration work. The three workers, all Colombians, were contracted by [...]

The latest kidnapping in the Niger Delta saw the seizure late Tuesday of two Filipino contractors working for Norwegian firm Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). The two workers were apparently working on [...]

Nigerian militants have freed four foreign oil workers kidnapped almost three weeks ago in the Niger Delta. However the mood remained tense Monday following a weekend of more violence in [...]

Ecuador's anti-kidnapping unit, Unase, successfully freed two kidnapped oil workers employed by the state-owned oil company, PetroEcuador. Common criminals are thought to have been behind the kidnapping, with a ransom [...]

Colombian authorities have arrested the gang responsible for kidnapping oil workers in Ecuador. The 59 people arrested included Gerardo Herrera, a former member of small Colombian guerrilla faction, EPL (people's [...]

The Colombian authorities announced the arrest on 22 June of the gang responsible for kidnapping oil workers in Ecuador. The 59 people arrested included Gerardo Herrera, a former member of [...]

It does not seem to get much better for Indonesia. The country's ailing leader Abdurrahman Wahid was effectively forced to give up the day-to-day running of the country. The country's [...]

The Chinese management of the Aqtobemunaigaz oil company is violating the rights of the enterprise's Kazakh employees by granting unspecified privileges to Chinese workers who are not covered by Kazakhstan's [...]

When Edmonton-based United Pipeline Systems agreed to do contract work in Ecuador, it never expected its workers would become the first foreigners in recent memory to suffer a group kidnapping [...]

Fourteen oil companies demanded Wednesday that Ecuador's military provide more protection for their workers after the kidnapping of 12 foreigners, eight of them oil workers, near Ecuador's Amazonian border with [...]

Britain said Wednesday that a British oil worker, Richard Lintott, had been murdered in Nigeria in an attack by a gang of robbers. Lintott, 51, a father of two from [...]

A Briton and an Australian working for Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Nigeria have been freed nearly three weeks after they were taken hostage with their helicopter, James Ibori, governor of [...]

The three employees of Royal Dutch/Shell Group taken hostage in Nigeria have been freed by their kidnappers, a company official said Monday. An American employee taken hostage was released by [...]

Five Venezuelan oil workers were kidnapped on the Colombian border by suspected Colombian guerrillas, the Venezuelan government said Wednesday. Defense Minister Tito Rincon said six armed men, who identified themselves [...]

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main Nigerian militant group has declared an all-out attack in Nigeria's southern oil region. MEND has said that it will continue to kidnap oil workers especially after the announcement of a force majeure by Shell's Nigerian subsidiary on Bonny Light crude shipments following damage to one of its pipelines.