NNPC’s Tantita Security Intercepts Another Massive Vessel With Stolen Crude

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Tantita Security Services Limited, which is the private security outfit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd has intercepted a massive vessel carrying barrels of stolen crude oil in Escravos area of Delta state.

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The vessel was said to have been intercepted last Friday while trying to escape with illegal crude oil from the creeks of the Niger Delta creeks.

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This discovery is the latest in the series of disturbing findings that the NNPC’s Private Security Contractors have recently reported.

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In May, the NNPC recorded another major breakthrough in it’s fight against crude oil thieves, with the interception of trucks and the discovery of a depot used in stealing crude oil in Nigeria.

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On October 6 last year, THE WHISTLER had reported how operatives of Tantita Security laid ambush to a suspected oil syndicate, and apprehended the captain and seven other crew members.

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The arrest was made while the criminals were pumping crude oil from an illegal connection which they had fixed to a Chevron pipeline in the Warri River.

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One week later, another illegal oil pipeline was uncovered which was used by criminals to steal crude oil from Forcados Terminal in Delta State.

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NNPC’s Tantita Security Intercepts Another Massive Vessel With Stolen Crude

The illegal pipeline was located in Okuntu Community which is a few metres away from the Forcados crude oil export terminal

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The illegal 6 inch pipeline was connected to the 48 inch Trans Forcados Export Pipeline connecting the high sea where crude oil is being loaded into vessels.

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It was connected with the primary intention to steal crude oil from the main pipeline operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company and Agip.

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The distance from where the illegal pipeline was connected and where it was being used to load stolen crude oil into the ship is between five to six kilometers.

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So far, Tantita Security Services working in collaboration with NNPC has discovered over 60 illegal connections to the trans-Escravos, trans-Forcados, and other major trunk lines by oil bunkers in Delta and Bayelsa states.

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NNPC’s Tantita Security Intercepts Another Massive Vessel With Stolen Crude

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