Shell among buyers for first time since February halt Pipeline stopped after militant attack led to force majeure The oil market gave the clearest sign yet that Nigeria’s Forcados crude is about to flow again for the first time in eight months, after Royal Dutch Shell Plc was among companies said to have purchased the grade halted by militant attacks in February. Axion Energy Argentina SA, Pampa Energia SA, and Shell, operator of the Forcados export terminal, together bought about 1 million barrels of the grade for delivery to refineries they run in Argentina between Nov. 20 and Nov. 25, according to a person familiar with the deal. The seller was Shell Western. Nigeria’s oil industry has been so devastated by militant attacks this year that the country said it got an exemption when OPEC on Wednesday reached an accord to restrain crude supplies in an effort to curb […]