Oil theft: ‘7-year-old’ illegal tapping point uncovered in Rivers community | TheCable
Mbakpone Okpe, executive chairman of Tai LGA, Rivers, led the discovery team to the site on Monday., Tai local security taskforce and pipeline surveillance contractors.Speaking on the incident, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, executive director, Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre , in a statement seen by TheCable, condemned the act by the illegal oil refiners.
Fyneface said employees of Shell Petroleum Development Company , operator of TNP, were performing routine maintenance work on the pipeline at the time of the discovery, as the tapping point was near their site.He said the workers “were surprised that a tapping point on their pipeline was close to where they were but they did not know”.
“This discovery cost me money to get the intel and this access. That does not mean that Shell does not have operators that are doing surveillance for them,” he said. “I wish they would come so that we can jointly collaborate to clamp down on it. It is not only discovering it but also closing it so that it doesn’t recur. Since then, Shell has not come. It is part of the problem I have been having with them.”Okpe also said some illegal oil bunkering activities are still ongoing as preliminary findings indicated that there may be more of such illegal camps in the area.He also accused Shell of not taking responsibility despite discovering the illegal pipeline.
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