By Miriam Malek 

Militants from the Niger Delta in Nigeria, known as the Niger Delta Avengers, claimed several attacks on Nigerian oil infrastructure early Tuesday.

In a statement on the group's website, the militants said they blew up a Chevron-owned well, a manifold owned by a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and two crude oil trunk lines belonging to NNPC.

The group deleted their Twitter account recently, which used to be its main vessel for reporting attacks.

The Nigerian government had previously confirmed that a cease-fire agreement had been reached with the militant group, which had helped restore oil output from around one million barrels a day to close to two million barrels a day.

The attacks have helped support oil prices close to the $50 a barrel mark in recent weeks, with curbed supply prompting investors to hope that the oil market was likely to rebalance in the second half of this year.

The reports of Tuesday's attacks had little effect on oil prices, which were recently trading down by around 2%.

Write to Miriam Malek at Miriam.Malek@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

July 05, 2016 08:03 ET (12:03 GMT)

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