Niger Stops Oil Exports Through Benin Over Border Feud
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Niger closed an oil pipeline used to export crude through a port in neighboring Benin, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries amid an ongoing border impasse.
Landlocked Niger has turned off the valves on the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) conduit from the Agadem oil field operated by China National Petroleum Corp., Oil Minister Mahaman Moustapha Barké Bako said Thursday. The pipeline — built by CNPC as part of a $4.6 billion investment in Niger’s petroleum industry — ferries crude to the Sèmè Kpodji pipeline terminal in Benin for export.