Oil or fuel facility

Shell Forcados Terminal sabotage

October 2024

Forcados Terminal, Niger Delta, Nigeria

What happened

Crude supply to the Forcados export terminal was cut by roughly half due to sabotage, causing loading delays and the possibility of a force majeure declaration. Responsibility was attributed generally to oil-theft networks rather than a named group.

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Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Oil or fuel facility
Latitude
5.3500°
Longitude
5.3300°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. Pipeline explosion threatens Nigerian oil exports amid Rivers State political crisisThe Africa Report · Incident reporting