One Shell Nigeria Flow Station Down After Staff Evacuated

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.

AFX News Limited