Bonga start date delayed until next year.The giant Bonga
Bonga is a town in southwestern Ethiopia. oil vessel is not expected to start working until next year, its operator said yesterday. Royal Dutch/Shell has twice delayed the date of the Wallsend-built vessel's first production and it was expected to begin later this year. But the news is a minor setback setback In architecture, a steplike recession in the profile of a high-rise building. Usually dictated by building codes to allow sunlight to reach streets and lower floors, the building must take another step back from the street for every specified added height interval. for Shell, which has bigger problems after overstating its reserves and prompting a drop in its share price and a regulatory probe. The Anglo-Dutch group, which rocked the market in January by announcing it had over-estimated stocks by 20pc, last month said its reserves in Norway were 250 million barrels lower than thought. But analysts say that the delays in Bonga, which is Nigeria's biggest offshore oil project, could hamper the country's bid to win a bigger share of output from its partners in the OPEC OPEC: see Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC in full Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Multinational organization established in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum production and export policies of its producer cartel. Shell executives said yesterday that there were problems with the oilfield where Bonga is sited and production was unlikely to start until next year. |
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