ABUJA (Reuters) - Armed youths blew up a Nigerian crude oil pipeline operated by U.S. major Chevron, a militant group said on Saturday, cutting more output from the world’s eighth largest oil exporter. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it was contacted by youths claiming responsibility for Thursday’s attack on Chevron’s Abiteye-Olero crude pipeline and commended their action. The military said about 120,000 barrels per day of crude oil production were shut by the sabotage. “For production to have stopped, this shows the damage was serious,” said army Brigadier-General Wuyep Rintip, head of the government’s Joint Task Force in the western Delta. More
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