Shell Nigeria Oil-Flow Stations Restart After Protests
Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Nigerian unit said operations have restarted at oil-flow stations in the Niger River delta besieged on Aug. 24 by protesting local women.
The protest at Otumara and Escravos flow stations ended following “successful dialogue” between the state government, Shell and the community, Shell’s spokesman Tony Okonedo said in an e-mailed statement today from Lagos. He didn’t provide further details.
The women, who were demanding electricity and redress for environmental damage to their community, took over a Chevron Corp. pipeline building site on the Escravos River on Aug. 18. They occupied the same site for several days in July.
Oil and gas operations in Nigeria suffer frequent disruptions by restive communities in the oil-rich Niger delta seeking more benefits from the region’s hydrocarbon resources. Attacks by armed groups in the area cut the nation’s crude output by 28 percent from 2006 to 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Nigeria is Africa’s top oil producer and the fifth-biggest source of U.S. oil imports.
To contact the reporter on this story: Elisha Bala-Gbogbo in Abuja via Johannesburg at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net.
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