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Nigeria pipeline attack pushes crude higher

By Miles Johnson and Javier Blas in London

Published: June 26 2009 03:00 | Last updated: June 26 2009 03:00

Oil rose back above the $70 mark yesterday after an attack on a Nigerian pipeline focused traders' minds on supply risk and away from dismal global consumption figures.

Nigeria's Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the largest and most active militant group targeting the country's refining infrastructure, said it had attacked a pipeline linked to the Bonny crude terminal, one of Nigeria's largest export points.

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