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WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that U.S. citizens were among the hostages taken when Islamist militants raided a gas facility in Algeria and that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had telephoned Algeria's prime minister to discuss the incident. "Bey
Read more* Islamists attack Algerian gas field * Dozens of foreign hostages held, three killed * Raid in retaliation for French intervention in Mali * Gas field produces over a tenth of Algerian gas By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked a ga
Read moreLONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Oil major BP said on Wednesday it believed the In Amenas gas field in Algeria was currently shut following an attack by Islamist militants. The company said the field had been producing around 9 billion cubic metres of gas a year (160,000 barrels of oil equivalent
Read moreWASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that U.S. citizens were among the hostages taken when Islamists raided a gas facility in Algeria and that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had telephoned Algeria's prime minister to discuss the incident. "Beyond confi
Read moreALGIERS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Algeria ruled out negotiating with Islamists who took dozens of hostages on Wednesday at a gas facility in the southern desert. "The Algerian authorities will not respond to the demands of the terrorists and will not negotiate," Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia
Read moreNOUAKCHOTT, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked militants who attacked a gas field in Algeria on Wednesday have demanded an end to French military operations against Islamists in northern Mali in return for the safety of dozens of hostages, Mauritania's ANI news agency reported. The statemen
Read moreNOUAKCHOTT, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Islamist militants who
kidnapped dozens of people in an attack on a gas field in
Algeria said on Wednesday they had been surrounded by security
forces and warned any attempt to free the hostages would have a
"tragic end", Mauritania's ANI news agency reported.
By Andrew Callus LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Accelerating global energy efficiency means fuel use is rising far slower than prosperity, largely because Chinese industrial development is increasingly energy efficient, a study by oil company BP Plc found. In its annual Outlook 2030 repor
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- World Bank, Germany cut growth estimates - Hostage crisis in North Africa - TUI Travel surges after approach from TUI AG The FTSE 100 ended moderately lower on Wednesday as markets trimmed losses by the close, though the mood was still cautious after both the World Bank and German government down
Read moreLONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Armed people are still occupying facilities at a gas field in Algeria, oil major BP said on Wednesday, confirming it had experienced an attack on the facilities earlier in the day. "The site was attacked and occupied by a group of unidentified armed people at about 0500 UK
Read moreBy Peg Mackey BAGHDAD, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iraq plans tough measures against the country's Kurdistan region and foreign oil companies working there to stop "illegal" crude exports in an escalation of its standoff with the autonomous enclave, the oil minister said in an interview on Thursday. Oil expo
Read moreOSLO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A Norwegian gas worker is among those kidnapped by Islamist militants in Algeria, regional newspaper Bergens Tidende said on Wednesday, quoting the man's wife. "I received a phone call from my husband this morning and he said he was kidnapped," the woman, who was not identif
Read moreIslamist militants on Wednesday kidnapped foreigners in a 'terrorist' attack at a BP gas field in Algeria, the UK Foreign Office confirmed. The British Embassy is working with local authorities to handle the raid on the In Amenas facility, an office spokeswoman told Digital Look and Sharecast. S
Read moreTOKYO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A source at a Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp. confirmed that five Japanese nationals were kidnapped in Algeria on Wednesday, Japan's Jiji news agency said. JGC is involved in gas production work at Ain Amenas in southern Algeria.
Read moreLONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Oil major BP said it had experienced a "security incident" at a gas field in Algeria, following reports that Islamist militants had seized five Japanese nationals and a French citizen from the facility on Wednesday. "We can confirm that there has been a security incident t
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