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Lagos - Anglo-Dutch group Shell has put out the fire at a sabotaged pipeline feeding the Bonny export terminal in southern Nigeria, a spokesperson said on Monday.
"We have succeeded in extinguishing the fire on the Trans-Niger pipeline and necessary repairs have been completed," Tony Okonedo told AFP, blaming the incident on sabotage.
Exports from Bonny were not disrupted while the fire raged.
Okonedo could not say whether a second fire on a different pipeline in Ogoniland, also reported last week, had been extinguished.
Community unrest forced Shell to quit Ogoniland in 1993, but the company's supply pipelines still pass through the area and are regularly vandalised.
Shell is Nigeria's largest oil operator, accounting for around half of the country's daily exports of 2.6 million barrels at peak production. Unrest in the Niger Delta has reduced that figure by a quarter in the last two years.
- Sapa-AFP