Shell: Nigeria Soku Gas Plant Shut Down Days After Restarting
April 06 2009 - 11:37AM
Dow Jones News
A major gas and condensate plant operated by the Shell Petroleum
Development Company in Nigeria has been shut down just eight days
after it came online from a four-month shutdown, a Royal Dutch
Shell PLC (RSDB) spokesman said Monday.
The Soku gas plant in southern Rivers State has been shut down
again, this time "for operational reasons," Shell spokesman
Precious Okolobo said. Okolobo declined to give further details,
and said Shell would have the plant online again "as soon as we
can."
The plant was restarted March 29 after being shut down since
November year after attacks by oil thieves caused leakages in the
pipeline.
Before the shutdown in November Soku was supplying 1.1. billion
cubic feet of gas a day to the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas plant
- 40% of NLNG's total gas supply - and 30,000 barrels a day of
condensate to an export terminal.
Nigeria supplies 10% of the world's liquefied natural gas
supply.
Oil production in Nigeria is frequently disrupted by oil thieves
or militants attacking pipelines and other installations.
SPDC and NLNG are joint ventures between the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation and international oil majors Shell, Total SA
(TOT) and Agip SpA.
-By Will Connors, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires.
william.connors@wsj.com. +234 708 246 0459
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