One Shell Nigeria flow station down after staff pulled following local clashes |
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LAGOS (AFX) - Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell said today that one of two flow stations in Nigeria from which it pulled workers at the weekend following inter-community clashes has gone down, reducing the company's crude oil output by 12,000 barrels per day.The flow stations are in Ekulama, a small town in the southern state of Rivers that has been the scene of inter-community violence since Saturday.'As you know we evacuated our people from the two flow stations at Ekulama. The Ekulama 2 plant has tripped' on Tuesday, a Shell official told AFP, adding that maintenance staff who could normally have got it back up were among those who had been evacuated.'We are losing 12,000 bpd', the official said.He again declined to discuss the number of persons evacuated but underlined that this was a case of a climate of insecurity created by local people 'fighting among themselves' and not an incident targeting Shell.Violence flared in Ekulama, which lies some 50 kilometres (30 miles) south-west of the state capital Port Harcourt, Saturday after unidentified gunmen attacked a boat in the creeks around the area, killing four local chiefs and several other people.Shell is the biggest oil producer in Nigeria, pumping somewhere in the region of 800,000 to 900,000 barrels of crude per day when operating at capacity.It was not immediately clear whether any of Shell's other facilities are currently down or operating below capacity.newsdesk@afxnews.comafp/jsa/jfrCOPYRIGHTCopyright AFX News Limited 2006. All rights reserved.The copying, republication or redistribution of AFX News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AFX News.AFX News and AFX Financial News Logo are registered trademarks of AFX News Limited
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Shell pulls workers from scene of inter-community clashes in Nigeria 