The fire spread along a mile-long stretch of the pipeline, killing more than 300 people, including his sons Kingsley, 23; Tuesday, 22, and Gift, 20, all of whom tapped rubber trees for a living.
The village of Renokenongo was buried during the biggest of these eruptions, in November 2007, when the weight of sinking earth burst a major natural-gas pipeline, killing 13 workers and sending a fireball into the sky.
Insurgents frequently target oil infrastructure, with the most recent attack on the Kirkuk-Bayji pipeline killing 26 and injuring 59 on Sept. 18.
A homemade bomb in Hamdan, south of Basra, which was aimed at a branch of the police that guards the oil pipelines, killed three civilians and one police officer.
Trump has "approved" three pipelines, killed a rule restricting coal companies from dumping waste in streams, and wants to rescind the Clean Power Plan, and end a temporary moratorium on leasing of federal coal reserves.
"The Syrian Army couldn't bomb gas pipelines, kill its personnel or kill itself".
The story intrigued me because while the Mujahideen of North Sinai get plenty of attention for blowing up gas pipelines, killing conscripts and the like, not a lot is heard about the less populous south.
An oil pipeline explosion killed more than 50 people in Qingdao, and more than 100 people perished when a poultry-processing plant caught fire in northeastern Jilin province.
Celia W. Dugger (NYT) AFRICA NIGERIA: 18 DIE IN PIPELINE BLAST -- In the latest in a series of Niger Delta explosions, eighteen people scooping fuel from a leaking pipeline were killed near the southeastern city of Calabar over the weekend.
China's largest oil refiner Sinopec has apologised for explosions from a ruptured oil pipeline that killed 47 people and injured 136 others in one of the country's worst industrial accidents this year.
