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Navy Arrests 14 Over illegal Oil Bunkering in River

POSTED ON April 5, 2024 •   Metro      BY Benedicta Bassey •   VIEWS 170
Nigerian Navy on transit in water to illegal oil bunkering site/Photo Credit: NigeriaNavy/ Source: X

The Nigerian Navy said it has arrested fourteen persons in connection with illegal oil bunkering in Elem Krakama community of the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Also, the Navy uncovered an illegal oil refining site with a capacity to produce over 9.6 million litres per day of Automotive Gas Oil, popularly called diesel.

In an operation led by the Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship, Pathfinder, Commodore Desmond Igbo, the Navy said three wooden boats with a storage capacity of 70 metric tonnes were seized.

Igbo, said the suspects were siphoning crude from a tapped oil wellhead from Oil Mining Lease (OML-18) operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in the area.

He said the wellhead was compromised by the suspected oil thieves in the same oil field.

According to him, “This is Elem Krakama in Degema LGA of Rivers State. We have come here to ensure that this oil stealing will not continue. We have about 16 cooking pots and some of them contain about 600,000 litres. It is very huge, as you can see where they are tapping it from, right from the oil wellhead.

“It comes out the way water comes from the tap. We have made arrests; we arrested about 14 of them in the act of stealing the crude and also illegally refining this crude.

“They are transferring it to this big wooden boat also known as the Cotonou boat. The boats contain 70 metric tonnes of crude oil, the crude is still there, they will connect it to the reservoirs through the four-inch hose and from there they will start cooking it.”

Igbo who said the Nigerian Navy will not relent in ensuring that illegal oil refining activities is nipped in the bud, added that “both the arrested suspects and seized crude would be handed over to the appropriate agencies for prosecution.”

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