Nigeria pipeline due back on line

ABUJA, May 9, 2017 – Shell is reportedly close to restarting the Trans Forcados pipeline, sources familiar with the work on Nigeria’s oil export outlet said on Tuesday.

An attack in February 2016 halted crude transports, and the pipeline has been mostly shut in since. There was a brief window of operations in October last year, but another hit in November once more disrupted flows.

Sources speaking to Reuters said the first cargo could be loaded onto the Astro Pereus tanker as soon as this weekend. Shell has thus far declined to comment on the story.

The Forcados stream represented between 200,000 and 240,000 bopd prior to the shut in. The Trans Forcados pipeline system feeds a 400,000-bpd export facility using offshore loading berths.

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