The 100-kilometre long pipeline had been shut down after a fire outbreak was discovered in one of its sections on Sunday, April 21.
The company had initially said the fire outbreak was caused by an illegitimate breach.
According to a statement released on Friday, Ndiana Matthew, a spokesman for Aiteo, the company’s emergency pipeline repair team has completed leak repair activities on all reported leak points.
“Consequently, all injectors have been advised to re-align and commence start-up formalities immediately and advise on their startup times,” the company said.
The Nembe Creek trunk line transports up to 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of the Bonny Light crude out of the country through the Bonny Crude Oil Export Terminal operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).
The company had declared a force majeure to get some time to repair the pipeline.
Force majeure is an unexpected event which prevents someone or a company from doing something that is written in a legal agreement.
The NCTL shutdown is the second in two months as operations only resumed on March 7 following the plugging of a leak which necessitated the shutdown of the facility on February 28.
The pipeline has been a target of oil thieves and vandals since it was inaugurated after Aiteo purchased a 45% stake from SPDC in 2015.
