Nigerian Army, NNPC pledge partnership on pipeline security

Tribune

23 December 2010

Nigerian Army, NNPC pledge partnership on pipeline security

The Nigerian Army and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have pledged to collaborate to bring to an end the incessant vandalism of petroleum products pipelines across the country, especially in the Niger Delta region.

The Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Mr Austen Oniwon, noted with dismay that the recurring damage of oil pipelines by vandals had impacted negatively on the operations of the country’s refineries...

He implored the Chief of Army Staff to particularly deploy his men to step up surveillance on the crude pipeline from Bonny to Port Harcourt refinery and the Escravos pipeline to Warri and Kaduna refinery, saying that the refineries had been shut down temporarily because all the pipelines had been severed.

“The rate of the crude pipeline vandalisation from Bonny to Port Harcourt refinery and the Escravos to Warri and Kaduna refinery is alarming and I wish to request the Army to concentrate on these pipelines as they are critical to our operations,” Oniwon stated.