<div class='node-body'><p>In a reminder of the cost of oil, an oil spill has <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/world/us-oil-major-detects-oil-spill-off-nigeria-1.3906207">hit the already ravaged Niger Delta</a> region of Nigeria near operations by Mobil Producing Nigeria, a local subsidiary of U.S. oil behemoth ExxonMobil.</p>
<p>In a statement, the company &quot;confirms that oil from an unknown source has been sighted along the shoreline near Ibeno, Akwa Ibom state.&quot;</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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