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Nigeria seals Shell's Gbaran Ubie oil and gas facility on court order -statement

YENAGOA, Nigeria, April 18 (Reuters) - A Nigerian state government has sealed the Gbaran Ubie oil and gas production facility owned by Royal Dutch Shell (Xetra: A0ET6Q - news) on court orders, it said in a statement on Monday.

"The Gbaran Ubie facility was developed by Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) ... in Bayelsa State without a development permit," the government, based in the Niger Delta, said.

(Reporting by Tife Owolabi; Writing by Ulf Laessing; editing by John Stonestreet)