President Muhammadu Buhari has given a
fresh order to the military to take down the new militant group, the
Niger Delta Avengers, which has been attacking oil installations. This comes after Following an attack on the Okan
offshore production platform on Wednesday by the militants, Chevron said
it had lost about 105,000 barrels of oil production in three days.
It was gathered on
Saturday that the President gave the directive on Friday,
The oil major said the incident had
affected about 35,000 barrels per day of its own net crude production,
or about 15 per cent of its output in the country.
“Approximately 35,000 bpd of Chevron’s net crude oil production in Nigeria are impacted,” AFP quoted a Chevron’s spokeswoman, Isabel Ordonez, as saying in a statement.
The General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr. Deji Haastrup, confirmed the figure.
He said,
“This is a very difficult time
for the country because it needs the revenue it can get from oil
production. Incidents such as this have the potential to impact that. We
do hope that it does not seriously affect the country.”
Workers on the pipelines told one of our
correspondents that before the attack, they had pumped 28,000 barrels
from the Escravos terminal on Thursday.
“Both Warri and Kaduna refineries also
got a delivery rate of 903,000 barrels just before the attacks,”
“The fire is still on and it’s going to be hard to stop it because it’s huge,” the workers said on Saturday night.
The workers said following the attacks, they counted about 10 military air patrols over the pipelines on Saturday.
They also added that it had been difficult for fire fighters to quench the fire from the bombed pipelines.
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