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Niger Watch (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
A major oil pipeline ferrying crude oil to two of the country’s four refineries has been ruptured, amid fears that militants may have been responsible for the action. The private Punch newspaper reported Thursday that the Chanomi Creek pipeline, which transports crude oil from Nigeria’s main oil city of port Harcourt to two refineries in Warri and the northern city of Kaduna, was...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
... in the Niger Delta region and because the oil firm had found more leakages at a Bonny Light pipeline.Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC), the company's local unit is extending suspension it declared on July 29 on the Bonny light offtake program, adding that the suspension would "depend on the progress of repair work"We have found more leaks at the pipeline. So repair works...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
... Niger Delta region after the Anglo-Dutch oil major found more leaks on a Bonny Light crude pipeline, a Shell spokesman said."We have found more leaks on the pipeline. So repair works became more complicated than we had thought. This is also because of the security situation," the spokesman said.Shell did not give a specific date for ending the force majeure, first declared after the...
