{"id":95051,"date":"2023-08-27T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/crude-oil-theft-fg-discovers-illegal-pipeline-connections-in-abia"},"modified":"2023-08-27T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:42:23","slug":"crude-oil-theft-fg-discovers-illegal-pipeline-connections-in-abia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/crude-oil-theft-fg-discovers-illegal-pipeline-connections-in-abia","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil theft: FG discovers illegal pipeline connections in Abia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An unauthorised oil connection was found on Saturday by a delegation sent by President Bola Tinubu to assess the oil theft situation in the Niger Delta.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement released by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the country loses an average of $7.2 million monthly from the illegal connection discovered in Owaza, Abia State.<\/p>\n<p>NNPCL added that clandestine refineries and the environmental devastation the team saw translated into severe economic losses for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation, led by the Minister of Defence, Malam Muhammed Badaru, has service chiefs and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, as members.<\/p>\n<p>Other members are Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Mr Ekperipe Ekpo, National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, and Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPC Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the team are the Commander of \u201cOperation Delta Safe,\u201d Rear Admiral Olusegun Ferreira, operatives of security agencies, and chief executive officers of regulatory agencies in the oil and gas sector.<\/p>\n<p>The team visited the Trans-Niger Pipeline\u2019s right of way in Owaza, Abia, where an array of dismantled illegal connections were observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready to do whatever it takes for a peaceful Niger Delta,\u201d Badaru stated, urging the perpetrators to \u201ccease and desist from crude oil theft and economic sabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An unauthorised oil connection was found on Saturday by a delegation sent by President Bola Tinubu to assess the oil theft situation in the Niger Delta. According to the statement released by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the country loses an average of $7.2 million monthly from the illegal connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[1208,1570,2140,11224,701,254],"class_list":["post-95051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-abia","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-crude-oil-theft","tag-fg","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crude oil theft: FG discovers illegal pipeline connections in Abia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/crude-oil-theft-fg-discovers-illegal-pipeline-connections-in-abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crude oil theft: FG discovers illegal pipeline connections in Abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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