{"id":35680,"date":"2015-10-01T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=35680"},"modified":"2015-10-01T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:37:54","slug":"pipeline-leak-halted-nigeria-crude-exports-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pipeline-leak-halted-nigeria-crude-exports-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline leak halted Nigeria crude exports: Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell says it has halted crude exports from a key terminal in southern Nigeria because of a pipeline leak. <\/p>\n<p>The suspension affected crude exports from one of Nigeria&#8217;s main export points, the Forcados Terminal, which has a capacity of 400,000 barrels a day. <\/p>\n<p>The halt in crude exports was caused by a leak in the Trans Forcados Pipeline, Shell said in a statement released on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The group declared force majeure, a legal term releasing a company from contractual obligations when faced with circumstances beyond its control. <\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is Africa&#8217;s largest producer, accounting for roughly two million barrels of crude daily. <\/p>\n<p>Shell has blamed repeated oil thefts and sabotage of key pipelines as the major cause of spills and pollution in the oil-producing region. <\/p>\n<p>Crude oil theft is a major problem in Nigeria, with estimates that it costs the country some $6 billion (5.4 billion euros) in lost revenue per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell says it has halted crude exports from a key terminal in southern Nigeria because of a pipeline leak. The suspension affected crude exports from one of Nigeria&#8217;s main export points, the Forcados Terminal, which has a capacity of 400,000 barrels a day. The halt in crude exports was caused by a leak in the Trans Forcados Pipeline, Shell said in a statement released on Wednesday. The group declared force majeure, a legal term releasing a company from contractual obligations when faced with circumstances beyond its control. Nigeria is Africa&#8217;s largest producer, accounting for roughly two million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}