Saipem wins Shell Nigeria pipeline deal

An unidentified youth walks towards his shop in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Thursday May 17, 2007. Europe's great powers once scrambled for dominance across vast, underdeveloped African lands rich in raw resources, including the scarlet palm oil used to grease the first cogs of the industrial revolution. A century later, a new group of nations are competing for a different valuable, viscous material, with Sub-Saharan Africa closing in on the Persian Gulf as the prime overseas supplier of oil to the last remaining superpower. (AP Photo/George Osodi)

In the pipeline: Saipem to build new pipeline in Niger Delta for Shell

GEORGE OSODI

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Bill Lehane

 27 June 2012 09:41 GMT

Italy’s Saipem has won a contract from Shell to engineer, design and construct the 40-kilometre Otumara-Saghara-Escravos pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

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