Nigeria’s crude oil production suffered fresh set back Monday as Trans
Niger Pipeline, (TNP), which exports about 180, 000 barrels of crude oil
per day was shut down as a precautionary measure after a fire was seen
on the “right of way” at Gio community in Ogoni land, one of the two
pipelines that export Bonny Light crude oil.
Niger Pipeline, (TNP), which exports about 180, 000 barrels of crude oil
per day was shut down as a precautionary measure after a fire was seen
on the “right of way” at Gio community in Ogoni land, one of the two
pipelines that export Bonny Light crude oil.
TNP transports crude oil to the Bonny Export Terminal and is part of the
liquid gas evacuation infrastructure, critical for continued domestic power
generation (Afam VI power plant) and liquefied gas exports.
According to the spokesman for Shell Petroleum Development Corporation
(SPDC), the operator of the joint venture with Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, Precious Okolobo, “It was not yet clear whether export
supplies will be subject to force majeure. A joint investigation visit will
determine the cause and impact of the fire.”
The line is also the right of way for a Bonny-refinery pipeline belonging to
the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of
NNPC.
A project officer with a local environmental rights group, Kentebe Ibiaridor,
said: “The fire is huge and still raging when I left, we do not know the
cause of fire yet, whether it is sabotage or system failure.
Bonny Light crude is also exported through the Nembe Creek Trunk Line.
On Saturday, the Niger Delta Avengers, a group that has claimed
responsibility for a string of attacks on Nigerian oil infrastructure this year,
said it had struck a Bonny Light pipeline, ending several weeks of calm
under a ceasefire with the government.
A spokesman for the militants had said in an emailed statement that the
whether the incidents were related.
Recall that SPDC shut down the Trans Niger Pipeline on the 11th of July
2016, following a leak at same location in Ogoniland, and SPDC said then
that the line was shut down following a leak at Gio in Ogoniland.
The joint probe of the leaks and corresponding spills is done with the
federal government agency, the Nigeria Oil Spill Detection and Response
Agency (NOSDRA).
The other major pipeline, the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) that
transports Bonny Light to port was operating normally, several industry
sources said. Local upstream firm, Aiteo, operates the NCTL.
The force majeure had been announced after a leak was found on the
NCTL on May 11.
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