Shell evacuates 300 employees

Posted January 17th, 2006 by Anonymous

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AFX News Limited
01.16.2006, 05:27 AM

LONDON (AFX) - Royal Dutch Shell PLC said about 326 staff from one of its oil facilities in Nigeria have been evacuated following Sunday's attack by unidentified gunmen.

The employees were manning the Benisede flow station, which was invaded by the armed men yesterday morning, and three other neighbouring facilities.

All four flow stations have been shut.

Benisede was attacked by 'heavily armed persons', Shell said on Sunday in a statement issued on behalf of Shell Petroleum Development Co.

'The attackers invaded the flow station in speed boats, burnt down two staff accommodation blocks, damaged the processing facilities and left,' it added.

The incident came days after a group of gunmen kidnapped four oil workers and blew up the pipeline connecting Benisede and the nearby Opukushi, Ogbotobo and Tunu flow stations to the Forcados export terminal.

monicca.egoy@afxnews.com

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