anjouan, I guess there have been a lot of posts lately as I think you'll find it was PW who posted about that, though it was an excusable mistake as I believe that early radio broadcasts had mistakenly broadcast the misinformation.
Well at least now CHC has an excuse not to improve any leisure transport as nobody will be able to have any with a company curfew in place
I see that Shell has now banned business visits by all expatriates to Port Harcourt except with the permission of the Nigerian MD or his deputy. Even non-expatriates can only visit on critical business. They will not allow any expatriate to be lodged in a hotel in Port Harcourt and all their families are restricted to travel on the roads between 0700 and 1700 and then only between the Shell residential area and the Industrial area or the airport. Does this mean that all the Bristow guys flying for Shell and lodged in a local hotel will now be given housing on the Shell Residential area? It's probably about as likely as corruption in Nigeria finishing by the weekend
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In all fairness, the Governor of Rivers State called a meeting with many local expat managers and asked them to impose a temporary curfew on their expatriate staff and an announcement that members of the SSS are now in Port Harcourt and setting up a unit to handle abduction emergencies. I get the feeling that the government is getting seriously worried about the number of key expats considering leaving, coupled with the pullout of willbors from Nigeria and Julius Berger from the Delta areas, which will have a serious short-term impact on onshore oil related operations.