Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary has restarted oil production at five platforms shut down last month by protests in the troubled Niger Delta, but a pipeline leak has cut output elsewhere, a company spokesman said Monday. Shell restarted production late Friday at the Awoba North flow station, meaning that all five flow stations shut by the protests are now operating, said Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. spokesman Simon Buerk from London. Production is now at 76,000 barrels per day from Awoba North and the other four affected platforms, higher than their 70,000 barrels-per-day output before the protests, he said. Hundreds of men, women and children stormed the five Shell platforms and two others run by U.S. firm ChevronTexaco Corp. in three days of protests from Dec. 5. Full Story
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