The Trans Niger Pipeline, which carries around 180,000 barrels of crude oil daily, will reopen under the direction of the Federal Government. Vandalism and theft at the oil export facility forced the pipeline to be shut down six months ago.
A designated export terminal is reached by Bonny Light, one of the crude oil grades from Nigeria, via the TNP.
The pipeline contributes to the nation’s infrastructure for evacuating gas liquids, which is essential for both domestic power production and liquefied gas export.
But Shell decided to close the TNP when it was vandalized, which happened roughly six months ago. 180,000 bpd of crude was unable to be transported as a result of this.
On Sunday, Bala Wunti, the group general manager of National Petroleum Investment Management Services, said the pipeline would be reopened in a series of tweets.
NAPIMS is a division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
Wunti claimed that as part of attempts to reopen the TNP, his team paid a visit to the Bodo Community residents in the Rivers State locale of Gokana Local Government Area.
He stated: “Our visit today is of monumental significance as it provided us the opportunity to re-connect with the good people of Bodo Community.”
Speaking on the pipeline, he said, “Our presence today is part of NAPIMS efforts towards re-opening the nation’s major liquid hydrocarbon delivery atrium – the Trans Niger Pipeline, a critical infrastructure in the crude oil export, which has been under force majeure (closed) for over six months.”
According to Wunti, this was a step in the company’s ongoing effort to rebuild confidence with a community where NAPIMS and its partners were doing business.
“It is also a demonstration of NNPC’s strong commitments to its core value: integrity, excellence, and sustainability,” he said.
He buttressed that NAPIMS was able to do this because of the backing and dedication of NNPC’s leadership, while noting that the public oil company has continued to prioritize fortifying relationships with local governments, operating partners, states, and pertinent stakeholders.
He also said that the leadership delegation from NAPIMS, led by Zakariya Budawara, General Manager, Joint Venture Operations, had spent the previous week interacting with the Bodo community.
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