Nigeria losing 300,000 b/d of crude to thieves

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Nigeria is losing 300,000 b/d of oil to thieves who tap into the country's fuel pipelines and also siphon crude to tankers, a government official said.Delta State governor James Ibori was quoted in the Nigerian press as saying President Olusegun Obasanjo tole Nigeria's 36 regional governors at a meeting in the federal capital Abuja that Africa's biggest crude exporter was losing us 3.6-bil annually to oil theft.