The Nigerian Navy says it has handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), 70 out of 147 vessels arrested over illegal oil bunkering and crude oil theft. Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ogala, Director of Lesson Learnt, said this at the resumed investigative hearing of the House of...
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Troops of Operation Delta Safe, have in the last seven weeks, dismantled a total of 337 illegal refineries and arrested 141 oil thieves across Niger Delta region. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, made this known at the Defence Headquarters bi-weekly briefing on Thursday in Abuja. Onyeuko...
The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has confirmed an oil leak from a 12-inch Benisede-Brass Creek Delivery Line at Peretuorugbene in Bayelsa. The Director-General of of the agency, Mr Idris Musa, confirmed the incident on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Navy on Saturday said it has made several arrests and seized more than $700,000 worth of illegally refined products in the nation’s oil producing areas as part of its Operation DAKATAR DA BARAWO (OPDDB). OPDDB was launched on April 1 in response to a national outcry over massive...
Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), is seeking partnership with communities and traditional rulers to combat crude oil theft and kidnapping in Bayelsa. Irabor stated this on Wednesday, when he paid a courtesy visit to King Edmond Daukoru of Nembe Kingdom in Bayelsa, before interacting with...
An Indigenous player in the energy sector, Mr Victor Ekpenyong, has urged the federal government and oil firms to leverage on the expertise of Nigerian firms to check oil theft and increase oil production. Ekpenyong, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The weekly activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) started with a move by President Muhammadu Buhari to end crude oil theft in the country. To this end, Buhari ordered the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva and the Group Managing Director (GMD)...
The Federal Government says it is determined to stop the economic devastation occasioned by the activities of illegal refiners, pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft in the country. The Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said this on Wednesday at Bonny Island, Rivers, while addressing officers of...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC), has strengthened collaboration with the Joint Security Task Force and other stakeholders to tackle oil theft and illegal refineries in Nigeria. The NNPC said the combined efforts of the government security and regulatory agencies, the host community and oil companies was a...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has set up a team of experts to carry out thorough auditing of the activities of operators in the upstream petroleum industry in the last two years, to ascertain the actual volume of crude oil stolen by...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – Chairman of UBA Banking Group and Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has stated that the reason Nigeria cannot meet its crude oil production quota and benefit from high oil prices is due to oil theft. Elumelu, who disclosed this in a series of tweets, urged...
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) says it is upgrading and deploying the National Production Monitoring System (NPMS) facility toward curbing crude oil theft in Nigeria. A statement issued on Wednesday in Lagos by Mr Paul Osu, said Mr Gbenga Komolafe, Chief Executive, NUPRC, spoke recently in Abuja...
Chinese technology company, Hauwei Technologies on Tuesday said it had developed an intelligent pipeline monitoring system to help tackle crude oil theft in Nigeria. Mr Li Wei, Director of Huawei Nigeria Enterprise Business, made this known at a news briefing on the sidelines of the ongoing Nigerian International Energy...
Mr Erastus Awortu, Chairman, Andoni Local Government Area in Rivers has confiscated over 100 drums of illegally refined crude oil in Andoni while lamenting the adverse effects on environment. Awortu made this known on Tuesday in Port Harcourt while briefing newsmen on activities of the Council’s Petroleum Task Force...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has ordered all the 23 Local Government Area Chairmen to hire bulldozers and destroy every identified illegal crude oil bunkering and artisanal refinery sites in the state. Wike gave the order on Wednesday in a statement issued to newsmen by Mr Kelvin Ebiri, his...
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Tuesday forwarded an executive Bill to the State House of Assembly for consideration of a law to provide for the forfeiture of property used for illegal storage of crude oil. The bill is contained in a letter read during plenary of...
The Federal Government has said it is implementing measures to address insecurity and crude theft affecting oil production in the country. Mr Gbenga Komolafe, Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), said this at the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) 2021 conference on Tuesday in Lagos....