The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, Mele Kyari has visited the site of the illegal crude oil pipeline in Forcados which was discovered to have operated for a period of nine years.
Kyari was accompanied by the Group General Manager of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, Bala Wunti and other top officials of the Company.
News Central reported on Tuesday that the NNPC Limited uncovered an illegal oil connection from Forcados Terminal that operated for nine years.
Kyari made the disclosure at the Senate’s joint committees on Gas and Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream) on Tuesday.
Kyari said a four-kilometre illegal oil connection line from Forcados Terminal into the sea which had been in operation for nine years was detected during a clampdown which started in August.
Details shortly…
