Lagos—Oil majors in Nigeria continue to deal with incidents of oil theft from pipelines and other infrastructure attacks, with Shell again forced to shut down output after an attack on a pipeline and ExxonMobil having to close one of its pipeline links after a spill. Shell said on November 11 that it had shut in 25,000 b/d of its Nigerian oil output in the Niger Delta following a leak in a pipeline suspected to have been punctured by oil thieves. “The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has shut down the Imo River Trunkline in its eastern operations after it found several crude theft points on the facility. Production of some 25,000 b/d of oil is deferred,” Shell said in a statement from Lagos.
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