(Reuters) - Villagers with sticks and machetes staged a protest at a major Chevron oil production facility in Nigeria on Monday, forcing the company to shut it down as a precaution, security sources said.
The protest at the gates of the Ebite flow station in the western Niger Delta, which is a primary feed point for the 160,000 barrel per day Escravos export terminal, was triggered by alleged delays in compensation for an oil spill.
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