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Nigeria needs until June to repair Forcados oil pipeline

Nigerian Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachiwku speaks during an interview with Reuters in Abuja, Nigeria February 12, 2016.
Nigerian Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachiwku speaks during an interview with Reuters in Abuja, Nigeria February 12, 2016.
Unknown gunmen attacked the pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in February, reducing Nigeria's oil output by some 250,000 barrels a day.
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Repair work on a Nigerian pipeline feeding the key Forcados export terminal will last until June, the country's oil minister said on Wednesday, confirming a Reuters report from last week.

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"The line wont be ready until June," Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu told reporters.

Unknown gunmen attacked the pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in February, reducing Nigeria's oil output by some 250,000 barrels a day.

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