Shell starts repairs on Nigerian oil pipeline

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The fire that shut down flowstations feeding into Royal Dutch Shell's (RDSa.L) Trans-Niger oil pipeline earlier this month was extinguished and repair work has started, a company spokesman said.

"We do not have a timescale for restart of production or the amount of oil that is shut-in, we are investigating the situation today but the cause of the fire is not yet known," a Shell spokesman in The Hague said.

 

Shell said it thought the grade affected was Nigeria's benchmark grade Bonny Light BFO-BON but this could not be confirmed.

Liftings at the Bonny crude terminal, operated by Shell, are under force majeure with production reduced by around 200,000 barrels per day because of rebel attacks to oil facilities in the Niger Delta.

 

The company gave no update on the Bonny Light or Forcados force majeures, which both remained in place.

On Sunday Shell shut down flowstations into the Trans-Niger pipeline at the Bomu manifold in Ogoniland, in the restive Niger Delta region.