The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, says it recorded more than 9000 infractions on the nation’s oil pipeline in one year.
At an oversight visit to the agency’s headquarters, the ad hoc Committee on Oil Theft raises concerns over the herculean challenge posed by operating oil and gas pipelines.
The special committee set up to investigate the challenge of oil theft is at the headquarters of the NNPCL to further gather useful information on the menace.… Read the rest
The Ogbia High Court sitting in the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa, has ruled that Otuabagi is the host community to the first oil well that crude oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Nigeria in 1956.
It also ordered “the Oloibiri community to desist from demanding a relocation of the Museum and Research Centre Project or any part thereof since the earmarked project can only be sited where artefacts such as the first oil well are located.”… Read the rest