Abole oil facility raid
| Abole raid | |||||
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| Part of Insurgency in Ogaden | |||||
Map of Ethiopia highlighting the Somali region. | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
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Ethiopia Chinese oil workers |
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| Strength | |||||
| Unknown | 200 militiamen | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 65–74 Ethiopian soldiers, 9 Chinese killed | |||||
The raid on Abole oil exploration facility occurred in the early morning of 24 April 2007, when insurgents of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attacked the oil exploration facility in the town of Abole, 30 km (19 mi) northwest of Degehabur, in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The facility was operated by Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau (ZPEB), a subsidiary of the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) which was contracted on behalf of Malaysian oil and gas multinational Petronas.