This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
September 6, 2006
By Crusoe Osagie
Lagos
Uncertainty now hangs over the resumption of production of about 480,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil production by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in the Warri area of the Niger Delta, following threats of reprisal attacks by militant groups over the killing 12 militants in a recent shoot-out with soldiers.
Shell had shut-in the huge volume of oil production (which is about 21 percent of Nigeria’s oil production average of 2.4 million bpd) since last February, following the outbreak of violence in the region and a substantial damage to the company’s production facilities.