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(IHT) - ABUJA, Nigeria: A year after being forced to shut down more than half of its oil output in Nigeria because of militant violence, Royal Dutch Shell said it expected to resume full production within the next "five to six months," after agreeing with local communities that it could safely return to the Niger Delta. Shell shut down about 500,000 barrels a day of production from its fields in the Western part of the Delta after a rebel group called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, attacked several production and export facilities in early 2006. Since then, endemic violence in the region has crimped up to a quarter of Nigeria's total oil production. Link |
