By Vincent Nwanma – Jan 29, 2012 10:36 PM GMT
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg)– Nigeria will soon ask for compensation for an oil spill from Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europes largest oil company, President Goodluck Jonathan said.
A spill last month from the 200,000 barrel-a-day Bonga field off Nigeria, which produces nearly 10 percent of Nigerias crude, led Shell to stop production from the facility, the company said on Dec. 21. The export line at Bonga leaked almost 40,000 barrels of crude during a tanker loading, according to Shell estimates, making it Nigerias worst offshore spill in more than a decade.
Nigeria will be asking for compensations with a view to reaching an amicable solution to the problem, Jonathan said in a meeting with Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations secretary- general, on the sidelines of the 18th African Union Ordinary Session of the heads of state and governments in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, according to a statement e-mailed today.
A phone call by Bloomberg to Shells office in Lagos, Nigeria, after hours was unanswered, and there was no answer at the mobile phone number of a company spokesman
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