The need to re-develop one of Shell's mature fields located in
the offshore area of the Niger Delta of Nigeria was
necessitated by it's drastically declining production
performance over the years. The Bonny field which
commenced production in 1973, had a peak production oil rate
of 40 Mbpd in 1976. This however decreased over the years
to its present rate of 5Mbpd. Unearthing the reason/reasons
for this decline in production and developing a blue print for
resuscitating production in this field is the main thrust of
this paper.