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NNPCL Data 149 Oil Theft Circumstances In a Week
The Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted (NNPCL) stated it recorded 149 incidences of crude oil theft throughout the Niger Delta in a single week.
In an announcement on Tuesday, the Firm stated in one of many incidents, an oil bunkering web site was uncovered in Osuobodo between two ANTAN movement stations south of Oguta naval base in Imo state.
It said, “Removed from the common, these criminals have taken their actions a notch larger. On this camp, CCTV cameras have been put in on bushes by the thieves to look out for safety operatives. Mortar launchers and defence programs have been additionally mounted by the oil thieves in varied places to remove any perceived enemy.”
This discovery, NNPCL stated, was made potential after an invasion by the army following info gathered by an air surveillance carried out by Goal Vitality, Tantita safety providers, Operation Delta Protected and the Army in August.
It said that, “It’s a effectively orchestrated mission. The thieves are decided to dwell right here and commerce their stolen crude. A scarcity of electrical energy isn’t any excuse. Mills are on standby to maintain the camp’s operations afloat.”
Drums of crude oil feeding from an unlawful connection, luggage used for storing crude and extra have been found on the camp, it added.
Once more, it stated, “Between the 14th to twentieth of October, 2023, 49 unlawful connections have been uncovered in Udu & Ogharefe in Delta State, Ohaji Egbema in Imo, Brass in Bayelsa and in Rivers state.
“At this spot in Rivers state, oil thieves drilled a tunnel beneath the tarred highway to insert their unlawful connection. The purpose is to function undetected. This was deliberate and carried out by an skilled, utilizing a horizontal directional drilling machine.”
Sixteen circumstances of pipeline vandalism have been additionally recorded this week in Azuzu in Bayelsa state and Obodo Omadina and Ogidigbein in Delta state the place a effectively head was vandalised.
In Ozuaku in Abia state, NNPCL stated a vandalised pipeline was at the moment being repaired.
10 services used for storing stolen crude have been additionally uncovered in varied places within the Niger Delta prior to now week.
It statd, “In Ekpemu in Delta state, an fascinating discovery was made.
Extra storage services have been found in Ogborode, Ugborodo and Kwale in Delta State, Tomble and Emuoha in Rivers state and Yenagoa n Bayelsa state”.
In Ozoro, Umuosonwu and Patani in Delta state, NNPCL stated autos conveying sacks of crude oil have been arrested and their content material confiscated.
5 automobile arrests have been made between the 14 and twentieth of October, 2023.
Eighteen picket boats conveying stolen crude have been apprehended this week in Rivers, Delta and Imo states.
9 of those incidents came about within the deep blue water, 23 within the western area, 67 within the central area and 50 in Nigeria’s Jap Area.
