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A Blast Along Bonny Road Halts Operations on the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP)

The explosion is one of many in the region which led to exit of oil majors like Shell, Exxon Mobil, Total and Eni from onshore and shallow-water fields in Nigeria.

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Trans Niger Pipeline

The Trans Niger Pipeline, (TNP) was shut on Tuesdays following a fire caused by a blast the previous night. The TNP is a major highway for transporting onshore crude oil to the Bonny export terminal.

The Renaissance Group confirms this blast barely a week after completing the acquisition of Shell’s former onshore assets. It has now dispatched a team to investigate inorder to rule out the possibility of an attack on the operations of the TNP pipeline.

The consortium includes Nigerian exploration and production companies Aradel Energy, First E & P, Waltersmith, and ND Western, along with the international energy group Petroline.

With a capacity of around 450,000 barrels per day, the TNP is one of two that export channels for Bonny Light crude from Nigeria.

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