"There was an attack last night...12,000 b/d of output has been shut in".
A spokesman of Shell reacting on the latest attack of militants in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's key oil-producing region, where areound 40 people were taken hostage on late Thursday on an oil flow station operated by Shell.

"I must express great concern if the OPEC ministers's decision is aimed at maintaining crude oil prices at high levels for their own profits".
At a press converence in Tokyo, Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Akira Amari, Friday called OPEC's decision to cut an additional 500,000 b/d of output from the beginning of February "extremely dangerous" for the world's economic growth.