By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 10 -- Repairs to the crude oil pipeline at Escravos, near Warri, Nigeria, are expected to be completed by early June, OPEC News Agency reported Friday.
Nigeria's presidential adviser on petroleum and energy Edmund Daukoru said the Nigerian refineries would resume full production in late August following turnaround maintenance at the Warri refinery and completion of repairs on the pipeline and the FCC unit at the Port Harcourt refinery.
The refineries were shuttered and 140,000 b/d of crude oil from ChevronTexaco oil fields shut in during March 2003 when the pipeline was rendered inoperable by insurrectionists.
Area violence caused majors to leave the area until this spring when returning Chevron-Texaco personnel and others were murdered on River Benin in Delta (OGJ Online, Apr. 26, 2004).