Armed attackers kidnapped a Briton and an American on Thursday from an oil industry ship off the coast of Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, authorities said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction, the latest in a wave of attacks on foreigners in the world's eighth largest oil exporter. The violence has forced hundreds of workers to pull out and cut oil output by 500,000 barrels a day since February.
"Two PGS employees are kidnapped - one American and one Briton. We are doing everything we can to resolve this and have mobilised our emergency team," said Ola Bosterud, a spokesman for Petroleum Geo-Services in Oslo.
Bayelsa is one of Nigeria's top oil producing states at the heart of the Niger Delta, a vast wetlands region which is home to all of the Opec member nation's petroleum wealth.
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