Africa’s biggest oil producer is losing nearly all the oil output at oil hub Bonny, the town after which its premium oil grade Bonny Light is named after and a key export point for the country, Mele Kyari, NNPC Limited said Tuesday.
Nigeria had in a bid to curb crude theft launched an application this month to monitor incidence.
“What is most difficult to manage today is the issue of crude oil theft, it is real and it is happening,” Mr Kyari told a session of state house briefing in Abuja.
“Are we helpless? No, we are not helpless and our efforts are paying off.
“As we speak now, what you see on the screen is a typical site where crude oil is stolen and processed in illegal refineries. And this is so common around the pipeline that I can tell you in one line just less than 200 kilometres we had 295 illegal connections and you see the data,” he said.
Mr Kyari added that no one produces oil so that the next person will take it.
He noted that the chief of defence staff was ordered to coordinate a process that will ensure both kinetics and non-kinetic interventions including engagements of communities, private contractors, and technology.
“As a result of those activities, we have so far with the Nigerian army and other agencies of government in the security network recovered 35.8 million litres of crude, 22 million litres of diesel 0.15 million litres of premium motor spirit and 0.76 million litres of kerosene.
“11 vessels have been arrested,…
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