"The normalisation is taking place quite rapidly. There is a lot of maintenance work, but we should be back to normal by the end of the day," said a spokesman for the Anglo-Dutch multinational Shell.
On Friday night, the director general of Total-Gabon, Jean-Philippe Magnan, told AFP that production by the French company would be back to normal by Tuesday. Shell and Total are the two leading oil producers in Gabon, which is fourth on the list of sub-Saharan African oil producers, with an output of between 220,000 and 240,000 barrels per day.
Oil income officially accounts for 60 percent of the budget of the equatorial African nation of some 1.5 million people.
In Libreville, service stations, which have been short on supplies since the weekend, were waiting for fuel. The lack of deliveries on Tuesday caused major commuter disruption because of a shortage of taxis, whose drivers were queueing for petrol.
Police reinforcements were sent out into some neighbourhoods to keep an eye on the long queues of people waiting for the few collective taxis and public buses on the streets.Continued
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