About 112 illegal refineries have been uncovered in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Chairman of the council, Samuel Nwanosike, who spoke to Channels Television said that 99 percent of the discoveries were made in a particular community located along the OML 17 trunk lines. The development comes on the heels of the recent […]
Continue Reading
1. The Nigerian Navy Ship DELTA on 10 Jun 20, discovered a newly constructed illegal refining site around Bennett Island in Warri South LGA of Delta State. The site had 5 ovens, 5 coolers and 8 surface metal storage tanks cumulatively laden with about 943.3 barrels of product suspected to be crude oil. No arrest […]
Continue Reading
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) DELTA has destroyed about 1500 illegal refineries with swamp buggy in the Delta creeks in the last two months. The Commander of the ship, Commodore Ibrahim Dewu, disclosed this to newsmen in Warri on Wednesday. Swamp buggy is an amphibious vehicle used to traverse a swampy terrain. Dewu said the […]
Continue Reading
Rear Adm. Victor Adedipe, the outgone Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Eastern Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy, Calabar, says the command destroyed no fewer than 150 illegal refineries between June 2017 and January 2018. Adedipe said that the illegal refineries destroyed within the Command’s area of operation included those within the maritime domain of Rivers, […]
Continue Reading