Daily Independent: Trans-Forcados Pipelines Attacked Four Times This Year

The Trans-Forcados pipelines which carries crude oil from production facilities to export terminals in Forcados has been attacked four times by vandals and oil thieves, since the beginning of this year alone.

Executive Director, Gas and Power, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. David Ige who disclosed this in Abuja at the weekend noted that besides the loss of thousands of barrels every day, about 1000 million cubic feet per day of gas are lost too.

Ige explained that the loss of gas from the pipelines means several power plants are also shut down.

"We have had the vandalisation of Trans Forcados Pipeline almost once every week for the last couple of weeks and it is not just a recent outage. From the first of January this year and today, the pipe has been vandalized, we fixed it and it is vandalized again and again and we are in the fourth phase of fixing the pipe in three weeks and that is not just the beginning because it has been like this consistently for many months.
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