Nigerian security officials said they discovered a complex oil-stealing scheme involving a secret oil pipeline through a militant camp and onto a private jetty.

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is visiting energy-hungry China this week to talk ways of broadening their already extensive oil and gas ties.

Foreign oil firms in Nigeria are lobbying for the government to extend its deadline for an end to the wasteful practice of gas flaring, a request the government appears disinclined to grant.

Nigerian Vice President Jonathan Goodluck shocked his colleagues and countrymen this week when he referred to his country's oil wealth as an economic curse to his country over the last 50 years.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- State-run Gas Authority of India Ltd. said it plans to buy a stake in a liquefied natural gas plant in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s vice president has asked the United Nations to assist the government’s efforts to stop the flow of illegal arms to the oil-rich Niger Delta, though he stressed Abuja did not want to internationalize the issue.

Six Russian hostages, held prisoner by militants in the Niger Delta, were freed after more than two months amid gang violence in Port Harcourt that left at least 15 dead.

ABUJA, Nigeria, June 1 (UPI) -- Nigeria's new president is looking to foreign consulting firms to help with persistent violence plaguing the Niger Delta.