Shell ships 1st oil from Nigeria’s 1st deepwater field

Royal Dutch Shell has shipped the fist consignment of 200,000 barrels of crude oil from Bonga, the first deepwater oil and gas field in Nigeria, a company statement said on Tuesday.

.. “It is a technological triumph that Shell is successfully producing oil and gas from Nigeria’s deepwater frontier and we have capped that achievement with today’s first shipment,” Ibeneche, managing director of the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Co., a subsidiary of Shell in Nigeria, said.

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