Thursday, July 23, 2009 ABUJA: Nigeria's oil production has been cut to about 1.5 million barrels of crude per day -- less than half of its capacity -- by rebel attacks in the main producing region and the international economic crisis, Petroleum Minister Rilwanu Lukman said Wednesday."Our daily production is around 1.5 million barrels of crude and about 500,000 barrels of condensate and natural gas liquid, around two million barrels if you add the condensate with the oil," Lukman said. The minister said "more than half of our capacity" is lost because of militant activities in the Niger delta and the international crisis. "When the market calls for more, we are ready to supply and when the situation in the Niger delta improves, we will be in a position to supply more," Lukman said.Nigeria, an OPEC member, is the world's eighth largest oil producer.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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