The Energy Republic September Edition

NIGERIA OIL AND GAS
Mele Kyari, Group Chief Execu ve Officer (GCEO), NNPC Limited
NNPC Adopt New Monitoring
Apps for Crude Oil Theft,
Pipeline Vandalism
In response to the menace of oil
theft in Nigeria, the Nigerian
National Petroleum Company
Limited has launched an application for
the monitoring of crude oil theft and
pipeline vandalism, according to
Nairametrics report.
NNPC launched the Application in Abuja
at the signing of renewed Production
Sharing Contracts (PSCs) agreements
between NNPC and its partners in Oil
Mining Leases.
Speaking at the official launching of the
app, Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive
Officer (GCEO), NNPC Ltd, said that the
actions of vandals on pipelines have
become a difficult thing to deal with.
The app called ‘Crude Theft Monitoring
Applications’ was created for members
of host communities and other Nigerians
to report incidents of oil theft.
Mr Kyari said the cooperation partners
were engaged, alongside government
regulatory bodies, security agencies and
host communities while putting up a
robust framework to curtail the menace.
“There are still ongoing activities of oil
thieves and vandals on our pipelines and
assets, very visible in the form of illegal
refineries that are continuously put up in
some locations and insertions into our
pipeline network.
“Arrests have been made and vessels
have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy,
I commend the Armed forces, in the last
three months, they have done substantive
work and had destroyed some illegal
refineries,” he said.
Kyari said companies must endeavour to
report suspicious sales even on the
international arena.
He added, ”Every product that left the
country must have a unique registration
number by the NNPC and validated by the
Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory
Commission (NUPRC).
“Ahead of this, we are also creating a platform
where end-users, particularly refiners and
traders can validate the product.
“We cannot do this without international
collaboration. It is impossible for any refinery
to take a crude they do not know the source,
refineries are designed to process certain
specific grade of crude.
“It is their duty to ensure that they validate
this, because we have unique number of
every crude that leaves this country.”
Speaking further, he said “We have visibility
around everyone’s operations and the
Economic and Financial Crime Commission
(EFCC) is following everyone related to those
transactions.
“Wherever there is massive movement of
cash, EFCC will follow the person, we believe
that the combination of all these will get us
back to normalcy,”
Ministry, PAP,
NDDC to Develop
Joint Action Plan
to End Pipeline
Vandalism
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs,
Umana Okon Umana and the
i n t e r i m a d m i n i s t r a t o r o f
Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP),
Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd), have
resolved to formulate a common blueprint
to develop the Niger Delta, end pipeline
vandalism and illegal bunkering.
The duo agreed that it was high time the
ministry, PAP and the Niger Delta
Development commission (NDDC) worked
in tandem to develop common practical
template to tackle the problems in the
region especially oil theft related
activities.
Speaking recently, when Dikio and PAP
officials visited him in Abuja, Umana said
such joint rescue plan was required
because oil theft and pipeline vandalism
were undermining the peace and security
of the nation. He said: “those of us in the
Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, the
Presidential Amnesty Programme, the
NDDC and other stakeholders, including
community leaders, should work together
to address the burning issue in our region,
which is the issue of oil theft and pipeline
vandalisation. “I would like all of us to sit
down and come up with a solution to this
problem. I challenge all of us to work
together to assist the Federal Government
to solve the problem.”
A statement signed by Dikio’s Special
Adviser, Media, Neotabase Egbe, quoted
Umana as saying that the NDDC and the
ministry would consolidate their
intervention plans into one blueprint for
the holistic and more effective
development of the region. He
acknowledged that Dikio was right in his
argument that the region would be better
off if the various agencies charged with
developing it worked in one accord.
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