Nigeria: Oil Leak - Exxonmobil Shuts in Production

22 November 2012

Lagos — After almost two weeks of battling oil leak at its Ibeno facility offshore Akwa Ibom State, the Nigerian unit US-based Oil giant, ExxonMobil, is forced to shut down production.

Refraining from disclosing how much production was affected in spite of prodding, the oil company in a statement, yesterday, "declared force majeure due to the difficulty in meeting projected liftings because of repair work on a section of pipeline affected in a November 9 oil release incident."

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