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Nigeria pipeline attack pushes crude higher

By Miles Johnson and Javier Blas

Published: June 25 2009 11:15 | Last updated: June 25 2009 23:05

Oil rose back above the $70 mark on Thursday 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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