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Shell faces penalties over flare deadline [Nigeria]
Royal Dutch/Shell could miss an important Nigerian official target to end the environmentally damaging practice of burning off waste gas by 2008, according to the troubled oil group's joint top Africa-based executive [Chris Finlayson]...Mr Finlayson said...Shell was looking at alternative technological methods to try to meet the deadline. The company would not be "miles off the pace", he said.