Shell Plans to Boost Nigeria Gas Production Next Year

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc, operator of Nigeria’s largest oil fields, plans to boost its natural-gas production in the country as it starts a new facility and cuts flaring, or the burning of the fuel at fields.

The Hague-based company plans to increase daily output to one billion cubic feet within a year from about 700 million, Osten Olorunsola, Shell’s vice president for gas in sub-Saharan Africa, said yesterday in an interview in Abuja, the capital.