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Rivers State Police Confirm Trans-Niger Pipeline Fire, Arrest Two Suspects

Authorities Investigate Trans-Niger Pipeline Fire in Rivers State Amid Security Concerns Port Harcourt, Nigeria – The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed a fire outbreak at the Trans-Niger Delta Pipeline, assuring residents that the situation is under control while investigations continue. According to police reports, the affected facility, operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company…

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IOC urges Tinubu to Tackle security of oil infrastructures to avert doom

The incoming government led by president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to focus on fixing oil and gas security to avert total collapse of Nigeria’s economy. Dr Osagie Okubor, Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria, disclosed this recently at the just concluded Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja. He lamented that vandalism had heavily affected the nation’s oil and gas production capacity. Accordingly, the country continued to produce crude and gas below capacity due to damage vandals had done to pipelines in the Niger Delta region. He said the country had lost N2.3 trillion in oil revenue if the prevailing $83 per barrel rate was used. The amount translates to about 65, 700, 000 crude Brent loss to vandalism and oil theft in under one year. He cited the example of TNP, a Joint Venture operated by SPDC, which is a major pipeline capable of transporting about 180,000 barrels of crude per day to the Bonny export terminal. Okunbor added that the TNP was shut down for a year due to oil theft but was reopened for operations after over 460 illegal connections were discovered by the company. “So, if you ask me what the number one issue has to be for the incoming administration, it has to be the security of oil and gas infrastructure. If you don’t fix it, we have a huge problem,” Okunbor said. Read the full article

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BREAKING:Court Blocks Shell's Accounts Over Alleged Oil Theft

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BREAKING:Court Blocks Shell's Accounts Over Alleged Oil Theft

A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos has allowed a transitory Mareva order guiding business banks to impede Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited records.

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The court governed in an offer to recuperate the money estimation of in excess of 16 million barrels of unrefined petroleum supposedly redirected by the oil monster from AITEO Eastern E and P Company Ltd.

Equity Oluremi Omowunmi Oguntoyinbo provided the request following an ex parte application in suit no FHC/L/CS/52/202 where AITEO Eastern E and P Company Ltd is the offended party/candidates and SPDC Ltd is the main litigant.

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Illustrious Dutch Shell Plc, Shell Western Supply and Trading Ltd, Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Ltd, and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd are second, third, fourth and fifth respondents.

The respondents in the suit were 20 banks which Shell organizations work accounts with.

AITEO’s application was recorded by Messrs Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), driving Dr Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Dapo Olanipekun (SAN), and four other Senior Advocates of Nigeria.

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Oguntoyinbo in his decision said the banks ought to, “ring-fence any money, securities, stores, all types of debatable instruments to the estimation of $2.7 billion and pay all standing credits to the Shell organizations up to the incentive into a premium yielding record for the sake of the Chief Registrar of the court.”

He likewise decided that the Chief Registrar is to “hold the assets in trust” forthcoming the becoming aware of the movement and assurance of the movement on notification for interlocutory directive recorded before it by AITEO.”

The request followed an application by AITEO Eastern E and P against SPDC and different litigants with the 20 loan specialists as respondents.

The court had controlled the litigants or their representatives/privies from introducing to the banks “any command or instrument for the withdrawal of any cash and/or reserves remaining to the credit of any of the records” of the litigants kept/kept up “at any of the named respondent banks… “without first protecting/ring-fencing the amount of $1,251,305.5 or its comparable in some other authority money including yet not restricted to the naira or potentially pound authentic being the estimation of the offended party’s 1,022,029 barrels of unrefined petroleum (at the pace of $79.50 per barrel as expressed in the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) letter dated eighth day of July, 2020.”

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The respondents were additionally banished from offering any order or instrument to the named banks for the withdrawal or any cash as well as assets remaining to the credit of any of the records of the five litigants kept or supported at any of the named respondent banks and additionally their branches without first saving or potentially ring-fencing the complete amount of $2,700,583,779,75 or its identical in some other authority money involving $799,000,000.00.

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The total is “the sums professed to have been paid in this suit by the offended party to the five litigants for the obtaining of the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) pipelines and the resources; $389,631,877.76 being the aggregate sum guaranteed in this suit as having been lost by the offended party emerging from the spillages in the NCTL and the corrupted states of the NCTL; $578,951,901.99 being the aggregate sum asserted in this suit as having been lost by the offended party emerging from the rough robbery/burglary in the NCTL; $933,000,000 being the aggregate sum asserted in this suit as having being consumed by the offended party for the fixes of the pipelines and procurement of the gear including admirably heads, generators, and siphons just as supplanting the stream lines inside the NCTL;

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“That forthcoming the meeting and assurance of the movement on notification for interlocutory directive, the named banks whether without help from anyone else, chief, supervisors, officials or howsoever are limited then from tolerating, regarding or giving impact in any way howsoever to any command, check or guidelines introduced by all the five litigants whether without anyone else or through their representatives or privies for the withdrawal of any amount of cash as well as assets remaining to the credit of the relative multitude of respondents kept and additionally kept up at any of the named banks and additionally their branches without first protecting or potentially ring-fencing the aggregates as requested in supplications 1, 2, 3 and additionally 4 above.”

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Oguntoyinbo requested that the respondent banks, “to pay any amounts of cash remaining to the credit of the litigants inside 48 hours of the assistance of the request for this respectable court up to the aggregate/estimation of the sums expressed in supplications 1,2,3, and 4 above into a premium yielding record for the sake of the Chief Registrar of this noteworthy court, who is to hold same in trust;

“Forthcoming the consultation and assurance of the movement on notification for an interlocutory order, the respondent banks are coordinated to sequestrate and additionally ring-fence any money, securities, stores, all types of debatable instruments or chose(s) in the activity due to or remaining to the credit aggregate/estimation of the sums expressed in supplication 1, 2 ,3 and additionally 4 above;

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“that forthcoming the conference and assurance of the movement for an interlocutory directive, the named banks are coordinated to document inside 48 hours of administration of the request for this noteworthy court on them returns of the assertion of record of the all the five respondents kept up with them as at the date of the request for this fair court, such re-visitations of be confirmed by oaths.

At the point when the matter came up on Monday, the court was educated that the litigants had documented an application trying to release the request.

The appointed authority deferred further procedures till Wednesday, February 24.

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Oil pipeline vandalism affecting investment, says Shell

#Igo [The Guardian Nigeria]External Relations of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Igo Weli, said such efforts to curb pipeline sabotage will save lives, secure communities and protect the environment. …

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Oil pipeline vandalism affecting investment, says Shell

#Igo [The Guardian Nigeria]External Relations of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Igo Weli, said such efforts to curb pipeline sabotage will save lives, secure communities and protect the environment. ...

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One Soldier, two NSCDC officials murdered by suspected militants in Rivers State

One Soldier, two NSCDC officials murdered by suspected militants in Rivers State

Army and two personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), have been killed by suspected militants in Rivers State.  

  The personnel guarding Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Trans National Pipelines at Gio community were attacked by suspected militants on Sunday, in an attempt to vandalize 24″ and 28″ TNP pipelines.  

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In Nigeria, Shell’s onshore roots still run deep

BODO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell wants to reweight its footprint in Nigeria to focus on oil and gas fields far offshore, away from the theft, spills, corruption and unrest that have plagued the West African country’s onshore industry for decades.

An overview of the Niger delta where signs of oil spills can be seen in the water in Port Harcourt, Nigeria August 1, 2018. Picture taken August 1, 2018. REUTERS/Ron Bousso

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But for the company that pioneered Nigeria’s oil industry in the 1950s, the Niger Delta remains as important — and problematic — as ever.

While Shell has cut onshore oil production and sold some onshore assets, it continues to invest in others. In fact, onshore production has risen in recent years as a share of Shell’s output in Nigeria, an analysis of company data over the past decade shows.

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Much of the increase comes from less polluting gas, used mainly in power generation, which Shell thinks will be key to the transition to lower carbon energy. Gas made up 70 percent of onshore production in 2017, up from 47 percent in 2008.

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The company still controls thousands of kilometers of pipelines connecting inland fields to coastal terminals through its subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Co of Nigeria (SPDC), however.

So while SPDC has cut oil production in the Delta by 70 percent since 2011, when it first started reporting data on spills, the incidence of spills and theft from pipelines has fallen at a much lower rate and has picked up again recently, the data shows.

Shell’s Nigeria Country Chair Osagie Okunbor hinted it was a sensitive balancing act.

“We are too big just to see ourselves as ‘there is a problem and we have to run’. That is not what we are thinking of doing,” he told reporters on a media trip to the country in July. “But at the same time we don’t want to spread our footprint.”

Two pipeline spills in 2008 in the small community of Bodo in Ogoniland are emblematic of the problems in the Delta, a vast maze of creeks and mangrove swamps criss-crossed by pipelines and blighted by poverty and oil-fueled violence.

On a speedboat trip to the site of a clean-up operation launched by Shell last year, a makeshift oil refinery stood idle on a charred landing. The ground was soaked with oil, the air heavy with petrol fumes and slicks glistened in the water nearby. There were few signs of birds or fish.

So far this year, 85 crude spills have been recorded, already higher than the previous two years. In 2016, militant attacks pushed the volume of spills to more than 30,000 barrels, a high since 2011.

Oil theft from SPDC rose to around 9,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2017 – a loss of nearly $180 million for the year – from 6,000 bpd the year before.

Despite all the problems and costs, however, Nigerian onshore operations generate billions of dollars annually.

Shell does not break down profits by country, but a report on payments to governments that the company publishes annually showed it paid around $1.1 billion in royalties, taxes and fees to the Nigerian government in 2017.

That means Shell earned more than $4 billion from oil and gas production in Nigeria in 2017 – around 7 percent of its total global output.

A Shell spokesman declined to comment on the specifics of Reuters’ data analysis.

The Nigerian Petroleum Ministry declined to comment.

Shell has shown it can shut down if it is not making money. It stopped producing oil completely in Iraq last year after half a century in the country, although it retains substantial gas operations.

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“It’s hard to think Shell would stay put onshore and weather all the problems if the assets didn’t offer decent returns,” said Aaron Sayne, a financial crime lawyer working at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI). “To some extent, the onshore must still be worth the trouble.”

THEFT AND SPILLS

Shell remains central to Nigeria’s economy and society. SPDC – operated by Shell with a 30 percent stake while the Nigerian National Petroleum Co has 55 percent, France’s Total has 10 percent and Italy’s Eni has 5 percent – is the country’s largest oil joint venture, employing thousands.

The Anglo-Dutch giant’s operations drew unwelcome attention in the early 1990s when residents of the Delta’s Ogoni region called for fairer distribution of oil wealth and compensation for spills. The government cracked down and in 1995 executed nine protest leaders, including prominent writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, prompting Shell to end production in the area forever.

It retained control of the Trans-Niger Pipeline, however, and nearly a quarter of a century later, little seems to have changed on the ground.

In 2015 Shell accepted responsibility for operational faults that caused the 2008 spills that dumped tens of thousands of oil barrels into creeks around Bodo, and paid a settlement of 55 million pounds to villagers.

Dozens of spills since, including one by a barge carrying stolen oil that sunk in July, are frustrating remediation efforts, clean-up officials said.

“You clean it up, you walk away, somebody goes back there and does the same thing. It’s like going around in circles,” said Ogonnaya Iroakasi, Ogoni restoration project supervisor and an SPDC member.

Around 80 percent of the spills are a result of sabotage, Shell data shows.

Shell has taken a number of steps to improve the situation in the area, including training youth to start up businesses and funding local community patrols, campaigns to raise local awareness and even a local radio station.

But critics say it is not enough.

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“I am not minimizing the challenge of re-pollution but Shell are not doing enough to solve it,” said Daniel Leader, the Bodo community’s lead UK lawyer. “The pipelines are not equipped with the most basic leak detection technology and Shell is simply not present on the ground in these communities.”

Local residents are frustrated as the slow process stops many from fishing, one of the main sources of income. Much of the anger is focused on Shell but Eni has also struggled to cope in recent years. Since starting to report data to authorities in 2014, the Italian company has recorded more spills than Shell, according to Amnesty International.

“Please, don’t give up on us … I hope that you guys here can force Shell to do the right thing,” Michael Porobunu, chairman of Gokana council of chiefs, told the clean-up crew and reporters on his porch.

OFF THE COAST

SPDC has sold 10 of the 27 field licenses in the Delta it held in 2010, mostly to local companies. It has applied to renew the remaining licenses, which expire next year.

The divestments are a reminder of another cost of doing business in Nigeria – corruption. Shell has filed a criminal complaint against a former senior employee over suspected bribes in the $390 million sale of oil mining license 42 to local firm Neconde in 2011.

Offshore operations are an attractive alternative to the Delta in many ways. The Bonga field 120 km (75 miles) off the coast is one of Shell’s prized assets since starting up in 2005.

The giant tanker, with a drilling platform that pumps 225,000 barrels of oil and 210 million cubic feet of gas per day from a field one km below, won the company’s “asset of the year award” in 2016 for its safety and reliability.

Many risks remain. In 2016, the Trans-Forcados pipeline was shut down for months after militants detonated a bomb at its sub-sea section. Shell and Eni face bribery allegations in a Milan court over the 2011 purchase of an offshore license. Drilling offshore is also more expensive and technically complex.

Shell and its partners will decide next year on whether to develop a new offshore field, Bonga Southwest.

“Such an investment will reopen the window for the next wave of investment in deep water Nigeria,” Bayo Ojulari, managing director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, said in Lagos.

Additional reporting by Alexis Akwagyiram and Didi Akinyelure in Lagos, Julia Payne in London; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall

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Shell seeks stakeholders’ support to curb oil pipeline vandalism – Energy – Tribune Online

Shell seeks stakeholders’ support to curb oil pipeline vandalism – Energy – Tribune Online

Shell Nigeria has called for stakeholders’ concerted efforts to curb the incessant vandalism of crude oil-bearing pipelines, highlighting the danger of continuous sabotage to people and environment. The General Manager, External Relations of The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Mr Igo Weli, said such efforts to curb pipeline sabotage will save lives, secure communities and protect the…

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Nigeria: Oil Pipeline Vandalism Affecting Investment, Says Shell

#Igo [AllAfrica.com]External Relations of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Igo Weli, said such efforts to curb pipeline sabotage will save lives, secure communities and protect the environment. …

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Nigeria: Oil Pipeline Vandalism Affecting Investment, Says Shell

#Igo [AllAfrica.com]External Relations of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Igo Weli, said such efforts to curb pipeline sabotage will save lives, secure communities and protect the environment. ...

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Oil pipeline vandalism affecting investment, says Shell

#Igo [The Guardian Nigeria]External Relations of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Igo Weli, said such efforts to curb pipeline sabotage will save lives, secure communities and protect the environment. …

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Oil pipeline vandalism affecting investment, says Shell

#Igo [The Guardian Nigeria]External Relations of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Igo Weli, said such efforts to curb pipeline sabotage will save lives, secure communities and protect the environment. ...