Nairobi, Kenya (PANA ) – The Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday said it would return to Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region where attacks targeted at its staff in early 2006 led it to withdraw close to 330 workers in the swampy region, the world’s eighth largest source of crude oil.
“We hope in the next 12 months, the situation would have improved and we would be able to re-enter. The process would be gradual,” Rob Routes, Shell’s Executive Director, Oil Products and Chemicals, told a news conference in Nairobi.