Shell (SHEL) Hits Pause on Crude Oil Pumping at Forcados - A Major Change in Operations

Nigeria: The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), a subsidiary of Shell plc (SHEL), stopped loadings of Forcados Crude Oil from Nigeria due to a possible leak at the export terminal.

Personnel observed smells close to a single buoy mooring that was loading oil into a vessel, which caused them to stop the grade's shipments, which were scheduled to transfer 220,000 barrels per day in July. According to SPDC, an investigation is in progress.

According to information from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, the Forcados Crude Oil terminal, one of the nation's seven major crude terminals, In June 2023, approximately 7.9 million barrels per day (mbpd) of Crude Oil and condensate were produced. Since the beginning of the year, the terminal's Crude Oil output has mostly maintained over 7 mbpd, with modest drops in March and April 2023. The terminal's output of Crude Oil and condensate grew from 5.78 mbpd in April 2023 to 7.01 mbpd in May 2023.

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The first and most influential company in Nigeria's petroleum sector is the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). Operating out of the Niger Delta, SPDC provides onshore and shallow water oil and gas to the local and export markets through the NNPC/SPDC/Total Energies/NAOC Joint Venture. Approximately 10% of Nigeria's domestic natural gas is supplied by the JV run by the SPDC. To increase natural gas production, it is currently developing four of the federal government's seven major gas development projects in collaboration with the government and NNPC. One power plant, six gas plants, two main oil export terminals, 263 producing oil wells, 56 producing gas wells, and 3,173 kilometres of flow lines and pipelines are all operated by SPDC.