PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Western oil companies evacuated staff from three oilfields in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta on Tuesday after gunmen killed 12 people including four community chiefs in a dispute over oil money.
A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell said there was no impact on production, while a spokesman for Chevron declined to comment. The two companies operate oilfields in the area accounting for about 60,000 barrels per day of production.
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