After a few days of pipeline repair work, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has resumed export operations at the Forcados Oil Export Terminal.
This was confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the SPDC’s Media Relations Manager, Mrs. Abimbola Essien-Nelson, on Friday in Lagos.
By the end of October, when the continuing crucial repairs would have been finished, SPDC had previously stated that the Forcados Oil Terminal will restart export operations.
On October 12, Essen-Nelson was cited as saying in a statement that the firm was working to eliminate and clamp theft sites on the onshore pipelines in addition to the repairs to assure full crude oil receipt at the terminal.
Crude oil thieves vandalized the Forcados Export pipeline, which has a daily capacity to export approximately 400,000 barrels of crude.
The vandalism has made the pipeline less functional, making it more difficult to carry crude oil through the pipeline to the export terminal.
The Forcados Oil Pipeline System, which delivers oil, water, and related gas from fields in the western Niger Delta to the Forcados oil terminal, is the second-largest network in the Niger Delta.
The main trunk line into which numerous branches from onshore fields feed is the Trans Forcados Pipeline (TFP).
Its daily capacity at the Forcados River manifold is 850,000. The pipeline was run by Shell up until 2012.
Essien-Nelson claims that the company’s ongoing program includes both the active illegal connections to the SPDC joint venture’s production lines and infrastructure in the western Niger Delta and the inactive unlawful connection to the onshore portion of the 48″ Forcados Export Line.
She mentioned that the goal of the initiative was to cut off unauthorized connections to the pipelines feeding the terminal.
