Shell leaves Nigeria

Royal Dutch Shell company has announced sale of its assets in Nigeria, reported Financial Times.

The consortium operated by Royal Dutch Shell, which also includes French Total and Italian Eni, has decided to leave the market. The companies’ oil blocks have been put for the auction.

 The decision was made, because of numerous cases of oil theft and activization of the terrorist groups.

Nigeria has been having the problems of illegal cuts into the pipelines and oil thefts since long ago. This often leads to environment pollution and stoppages of oil deliveries. The Nigerian authorities have repeatedly said that they will punish the criminals. They believe that during 2012 number of such case significantly decreased.—0---

 

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