Shell Nigeria shuts in additional 50,000 b/d after pipeline spill

London (Platts)--1Jun2006

Royal Dutch Shell has been forced to shut-in an additional 50,000 b/d of
oil production following a leak at a pipeline in southern Nigeria, a company
spokesman said Thursday.
The leak occurred on the Nembe Creek truckline, in the eastern Delta
forcing Shell to close four flow stations, the spokesman said.
The outage takes Shell's total offline Nigeria production to 505,000 b/d.
Shell declared declare force majeure on its Forcados production and
pulled out workers from the western Niger Delta after militants launched a
wave attacks on oil installations in February.
"We have oil technicians at the site and are still looking at the cause
of the leak," the spokesman said.
Shell, Nigeria's biggest foreign operator, has said that production will
only resume when the security situation improves.

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