Shell’s Nigerian Oil Field Repairs to Take ‘Several Weeks’

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc said maintenance of its Nigerian deepwater Bonga oil and gas field, which accounts for about 10 percent of the country’s daily output, will last “several weeks.”

“We’re starting with a partial shutdown and then conclude with a total shutdown,” Precious Okolobo, the company’s spokesman in Lagos, said today in a phone interview.