YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) — Two suspected explosions at crude oil pipelines operated by Italian oil company Agip caused massive spills in Nigeria’s southern state of Bayelsa, state government officials said on Thursday.

In a separate incident in neighboring Delta state, heavily armed militants engaged troops protecting a convoy of Chevron supplies in a skirmish, but no-one was killed, a top military official said. The explosions on the Agip pipelines, which feed the 200,000 barrel-per-day Brass crude oil export terminal, occurred on Wednesday, said Bayelsa state’s Commissioner for Special Duties Dickson Bakebain.
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