The suspected militants blew up a section of the Escravos gas trunkline behind salvation city, near Ogbe-Ijoh in Warri South West local government area of the state, The Cable reports.

The Escravos Lagos pipeline was attacked in February, resulting in all of the areas electricity plants being shut down.

Last week that the Niger Delta militants threatened to blow up the oil blocs of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma, ex-Minister of Petroleum, Alhaji Riwalnu Lukman and other Northerners and South-Westerners in Niger-Delta region.

Col Mudoch Agbinibo a spokesperson for the militants who are fighting for a sovereign state of the Niger Delta, issued the oil well owners a two-week ultimatum to shut their operations in the Niger Delta and evacuate the workers from the locations or have them blown up.

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in the region but they are yet to make a statement as regard the fresh attack on Exravos gas trunkline

The Niger Delta Avengers have certainly been busy, forcing Shell’s Forcados terminal to shut in about 250,000 barrels of daily exports; and breaching an offshore Chevron facility in the 160,000 barrels per day Escravos system. In April, ENI had to declare force majeure — letting it stop shipments without breaching contracts — on exports of its Brass River grade after a pipeline fire.