Abuja — Shell said yesterday it had begun restoring lost production from its Bonny Light oilfields, halted after an attack by villagers. "We are ramping up production," a company spokeswoman said. Villagers had attacked a major export pipeline in the Niger Delta for the second time this month and halted 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil production, Royal Dutch Shell said yesterday. Community members stormed the Bomu pipeline complex, which is a major artery feeding the Bonny crude export terminal, prompting the partial shutdown of the Trans-Niger pipeline on Tuesday, a company spokesman said.
"Youths from the K-Dere community started to spoil the environment by opening some pressure indicator valves. Consequently, we had to shut in some of the oil production," he said. Shell said it had already begun to restore some of the lost production, but would not specify how much.
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