Suspected militants have attacked an oil pipeline operated by a local affiliate of Shell in Nigeria’s restive southern Niger Delta region on Monday, Reuters reports.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for a blast at the Trans Ramos Pipeline near Odimodi, operated by Shell’s joint venture SPDC, which locals said happened in the early hours of Sunday shortly after 1:00 a.m. (08:00 EDT). Shell said the line was closed for repairs.
Shell issued a statement on Monday in which it said it was “investigating the reported incident”. “The Trans Ramos Pipeline (TRP) transports oil to Forcados Terminal and has been shut since the leak on the Forcados export line on February 14, 2016,” it said.