Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has embarked on
Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) to ascertain the cause of the leakage on its
crude oil flow-line in Nembe Creek, Bayelsa State. The joint inspection
involved representatives of the company; communities; local and state
governments and the regulatory agencies.
Shell had shut in a flow-line from Well-39s that flows to Nembe
Creek-2 Flow Station, after a leak was observed on the line. Crude oil from
Nembe flow station goes to the 380,000 barrels per day capacity Bonny Export
Terminal in Rivers State, which is scheduled to export about 150,000barrels per
day this month.
The Amnesty Programme introduced for repentant militants in
the Niger Delta has drastically reduced destructive attacks on oil workers and
infrastructure but oil bunkering has been on increase.
Shell recently
repaired the Nembe Creek Trunkline (NCTL) after shutting it down because of
incessant crude theft that led to a declaration of force majeure on export of
Bonny Light. The damaged facility was
commissioned in 2010 at the cost of $1.1 billion to replace an older pipeline. NCTL
was also shut down for one month in December 2011, following a spill caused by
two failed bunkering connections.
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