LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Trans Forcados Pipelinewill be down for at least 10 more days for cleaning and testingfollowing repairs, the chairman of energy company Shoreline,which pumps crude from the stream, said.
Kola Karim said the tanker that loaded Forcados oil lastweek, the Everbright, took crude that was already at the exportterminal, and new flows would not begin until the repairedpipeline had been cleaned and tested.
"The Trans Forcados pipeline has not started yet," Karimsaid, adding that it was being cleaned and tested.
Once the pipeline restarted, he said, it would take seven to10 days to bring gas flows from Forcados back to capacity.
Forcados crude has been under force majeure from operatorShell since a militant attack on the subsea pipeline inFebruary. (Reporting by Libby George; editing by Susan Thomas)
