Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell may be forced to shut down "completely" the Nembe Creek pipeline in Nigeria due to persistent oil theft, the company's local unit said on Monday.

Previous outages on that pipeline have deferred around 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of production from Africa's largest producer, Shell said in a statement.

"The situation in the last few weeks is unprecedented. The volume being stolen is the highest in the last three years; over 60,000 bpd from Shell alone," Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Mutiu Sunmonu said.

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Why is Nigeria so fukd up? We have Navy airforce etc.. This is economic sabotage and a case of national security emergency. But government is turning a blind eye to the situation. Only for Jonathan to be begging foreign nations to help. Seriously, Nigeria has gone to the dogs. Chaos looms, everything is upside down.


Go wipe out these creek thieves! Wipe them out if they won't repent.

If the oil producing communities want to control their oil, they should think of having a communal oil company that will take 60% of profit. That is the way to go for now until Nigerian constitution is changed. Be creative not destructive.