Shell sells oil fields in Nigeria for €3,79 billion

Posted on 28-08-2014 at 11:14 by CasperH – 33 Comments”

The Dutch oliegigant is completely ready with the problems of security and theft where the company operates.

A spokesperson for Shell has opposite news agency Reuters stated that the four oil fields sells plus the Nembe Creek Trunk Line. That is a hose of 97 kilometers long, that 150,000 barrels of oil per day transported from the interior to the port in Bonny. At least, that quantity shall be taken as the olielijn is not being drained by criminals, because Shell says that the 60,000 barrels of oil per day lose to organized criminal organizations involved in the oil locally and internationally to sell. In march 2013 said Shell is still in the 157 fractures in the pipe had been repaired but that there is still 90 fractions were left.

Also the politics in Nigeria plays a major role in the departure of Shell. The political leadership of the country would like to see that local companies in the oil fields to the mainland to exploit and makes the big multinationals as Shell is becoming increasingly difficult. This move mainly to the off-shore oil drilling. The oil fields that Shell now sells are probably in the hands of Aiteo, a Nigerian company.

Shell is already under fire with regards to their oliewinpraktijken in Nigeria in connection with soil contamination.