Tue Jan 15, 7:09 AM ET
LAGOS (AFP) – Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said Tuesday that local people are hampering efforts to repair the sabotaged pipelines at the Forcados export terminal in southern Nigeria.
Shell on Monday said it would not be able to honour all its export contracts from Forcados for the rest of January and February because of the incident.
Precious Okolobo, a company spokesman in Lagos, said vandals in Forcados damaged the oil export and water discharge pipelines on January 9.
“We have not been able to repair the sabotaged lines because the host communities are preventing us. This is why a force majeure has to be applied,” he said.
A force majeure allows companies to suspend contractual obligations such as deliveries of oil and gas following unforseen events without incurring penalties.
Okolobo said oil lifting will resume at the 380,000-barrel export facility as soon as repairs are carried out.
Shell is Nigeria’s largest oil operator, accounting for around half of the country’s daily output of 2.6 million barrels at peak production, but unrest in the Niger Delta have cut back production by a quarter since January 2006.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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