Oil giant, Shell, has halted crude exports from a Forcados Oil terminal in southern Nigeria because of a leak in a supply pipeline.
Shell said its Nigerian subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria ( SPDC) was working to repair the leak.
“The line was immediately shut down when we observed the leak on March 4, 2014,” Shell said, without disclosing the volume of crude exports affected.
With a capacity of 400,000 barrels of crude per day, Forcados is one of Nigeria’s main export terminals.
Shell has blamed repeated oil thefts and sabotage of key pipelines as the major cause of spills and pollution in the oil-producing region.
Last month, Shell shut the Nembe Creek trunkline because of a leak, leading to an estimated output loss of 95,000 barrels per day.
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