Conflict in the Niger Delta Jonathan’s defeat in the March 2015 elections, the amnesty program seems likely to end in December 2015 and with patronage to former militant leaders terminated, local discontent is deepening. A February 2016 explosion in a pipeline operated by Shell Petroleum Development Corporation, a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary to the Shell Forcados export terminal halted both production and imports. Speculation centered on militants using divers. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum and the head of Nigeria’s oil company, said Nigerian production was down 300,000 barrels a day as a result. On May 11 Shell closed its Bonny oil
Bonny-sur-Loire Bonny-sur-Loire is a "ville fleurie", graded at the level of three flowers by the National Council for the "Villes et Villages Fleuris de France". Bonny-sur-Loire Bonny-sur-Loire is a commune in the Loiret department of the Centre-Val de Loire region of north-central France. The name is evidenced historically at least since the beginning of the seventeenth century. The commune of Bonny stands beside the river Loire, at the border of the Burgundy region and separated from the Nièvre department by a river, the Cheuille. The town is situated on the main route between Paris and Nevers, the A77 and RN7. The