By Emma Amaize
Posted to the Web: Saturday, October 13, 2007
*Unknown number burnt to death siphoning product
*Shell declares ‘force majeure’
WARRI — THE Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)’s 10 -inch Utorogu-Ughelli Pumping Station condensate trunkline in Delta state exploded, yesterday evening while condensate thieves who used the product to contaminate kerosene were busy siphoning product from the pipeline.
The SPDC shut down the Utorogu gas plant, which feeds the line, and declared a Force Majeure on gas supplies to the national grid while efforts were being made to evacuate the condensate. Condensate is a by-product of gas and the company must evacuate the product if it is to continue to produce gas. Some 300 million standard cubic feet of gas has been deferred as a result of the fire explosion. read more
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