By Monday OISE
BENIN CITY – Following the successes recorded so far by the federal government in the fight against activities of vandals and oil thieves ,they have now shifted attention to private oil companies across the country.
The latest casualty, Dubri Oil Company Limited in Gelegele ,Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State had one of its GG North 1 tapped by these vandals and oil thieves close to their operational base
The Oil Company got to know of the tapping of the line according to one of the surveillance staff from the surveillance contracting firm contracted by the company for checks and maintenance of the pipeline when they noticed there was drastic decline in the production from the GG North 1 and efforts to trouble shoot from the flow station and manifold to see whether there was any technical issues that will cause the decline ,all efforts was unsuccessful
Continuing the surveillance contracted staff said they had to intensifies efforts with search untill they discovered the spot where the vandals excavated the soil and the illegal pipeline which was buried underground and it was traced to the point the vandals actually tapped.
He pointed out that the management of the company quickly took a decision to divert the crude flowing through the line that was tapped to the second line where the company presently now produce
The company source noted that “roughly the extimation of what the company lost daily was more than 60 barrels ,we do not know how long this has been going on ,however we discovered that our production has been declining for past three months but the drastic decline was more in the last week hence the call for the investigation and subsequently the discovery of the illegal tapping of the pipeline “
