By Juliet Alohan With Agency Report, 24 October 2012
A total of 517,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day has been halted following the force majeure declared by oil giants Total and Shell.
Total has declared force majeure on gas supplies to Nigeria LNG’s liquefication plant, the company said yesterday.
The company said it had stopped oil and gas production from its onshore Oil Mining Lease (OML) 58 block, losing the equivalent of 90,000 barrels per day of oil equivalent.
The oil and gas major said it declared the force majeure 10 days ago at its OML 58 natural gas field in Nigeria due to flooding, which forced the company to halt its natural gas production there, and that it had stopped oil and gas production from its onshore OML 58 block.