Pegaris keras dan penjahat mencari tebusan selalu melancarkan serangan dan penculikan terhadap karyawan asing di Delta Niger, daerah lahan basah luas, yang merupakan pusat semua sumber minyak Nigeria.
Militants and criminals seeking ransoms have kept up a series of attacks and kidnappings against foreign workers in the Niger Delta, a vast wetlands region which is home to all of Nigeria's oil resources.