TheNavy has arrested 14 suspects involved in oil theft and also uncovered an illegal oil refining site in creeks around Elem Krakama in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Nigerian Navy has arrested 14 suspects involved in oil theft and also uncovered an illegal oil refining site with a capacity to produce over 9.6million litres of Automotive Gas Oil per day in creeks around Elem Krakama in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State . The Navy in an exercise conducted by the…
Igbo, who expressed shock at the wide-scale economic sabotage going on in the location, noted that the site has 16 cooking pots with the capacity to contain 6000 litres of AGO each. “Behind me is oil well head 15 belonging to OML 18, of NNPCL. You can see a very big 14-inch hose connected illegally to this oil well head 15. They are transferring it to this big wooden boat also known as the Cotonou boat.
He, however, revealed that both the arrested suspects and seized crude would be handed over to appropriate Agencies for prosecution, saying his personnel would dismantle the illegal connection, just as he noted that the attention of the owners of the oil field has been drawn to clampdown the spilling wellhead.
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