Lagos—Shell’s Nigeria unit may be forced to shut down completely its key Nembe Creek oil pipeline in the Niger Delta following repeated attacks on the facility by thieves siphoning crude, the chairman of Shell companies in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, said. The sabotage attacks are “coming to a crunch [such] that rather than allow people to continue to attack my pipeline and devastate the environment, I may actually consider shutting in the pipeline completely,” Sunmonu said in a statement March 4. Sunmonu said there had been an upsurge in cases of oil theft in Nigeria in the past few weeks, with Shell alone losing over 60,000 b/d to thieves.
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