NNPC Loses 560,000 Barrels of Crude To Vandals In 5 Months

                            
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday said that it had lost 560,000 barrels of crude oil meant as feed stock to the refineries due to pipeline vandalism between January and May.

 Dr. Maikanti Baru, NNPC GMD disclosed this in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Commandant-General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Abdullahi Muhammadu.

“Under my watch as GMD, NNPC is committed to collaborating with the NSCDC and other government security agencies to finding lasting solution to eliminate losses and energy security threats,” he said.

He said the activities of vandals on NNPC’s pipelines in the Niger Delta region had become unbearable, and had led to substantial decline in the country’s crude oil production.

“The 2016 budget plan was based on 2.2 million bpd of crude production.

“The fiscal plan is now affected due to renewed militancy with about 700,000 bpd of oil production curtailed due to pipeline vandalism,” he said.

Baru said over 3,000 vandalism incidents were recorded every year from 2010 to 2015, while in 2015 alone, pipeline losses of products were over 643 million litres amounting to N51.28bn.
He said domestic natural gas supply to power had also been badly affected with an estimated drop of about 50 per cent from 1,400mmscfd to below 700mmscfd.