Last year, sabotage and crude theft also caused 11,806barrels to be spilled from Shell facilities in 118 incidents, Precious Okolobo,a spokesman for country subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), saidin a statement.

That equates to an average of one spill every three days,with theft accounting for 77% of the total spilled volume during the period,according to the statement cited by Dow Jones.

However,