Nigerian oil field fire adds to problems caused by pipeline shutdown

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"OPEC member Nigeria saw its exports limited again Thursday, this time by a fire at Shell's Santa Barbara field that forced 2 Bonny flow stations to shut. A Shell source said 100,000 bpd was impacted, only days after the company declared force majeure on Forcados loadings due to community disturbances."

I have no idea if this is y2k-related, but it follows closely upon Nigeria's pipeline problems earlier this week:

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002Csx

-- Bruce (bruce.dague@excite.com), January 06, 2000

Answers

Nigeria doesn't need Y2K problems to be on the brink...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), January 06, 2000.

I feel so bad for those people. The big companies come in and profit from the oil, yet the citizens remain impoverished, unlike Saudi's spreading of their oil wealth to the citizens, young and old.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 06, 2000.

Me too Hokie...... but, " you get the Government you deserve" :-(

-- Netghost (ng@no.yr), January 07, 2000.

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