A destroyed refinery By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited( NNPCL) says it has destroyed 134 illegal refineries in the last few weeks. Also, the company said 63 illegal pipeline connections were uncovered during the the weeks . The corporation, In a visual report, stated that at about 2 am on Sunday, a joint team of security agents discovered a large wooden boat illicitly loading stolen crude oil from Barge AGS01 within the OML 18 operating area, noted intelligence report a large wooden wooden boat was caught receiving crude oil from the barge. According to the state-owned oil firm, while the barge was towed away with a tugboat in custody, five speedboats used in towing the large wooden boat to the illegal loading site were also detained and the particulars of the tugboats and barge used for the operation were reportedly seized for further investigation. It further said that two large boats, which involve
NNPCL's Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari; Director, Deepwater and Production Sharing Contract (PSC) of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), Mrs. Michelle Pflueger and Queen Nwaha Torkwasi of Legal Department, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), display signed documents during a ceremony on conversion of the NNPC/CNL JV assets into PIA terms, held at the NNPC Towers in Abuja on Monday By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its Joint Venture(JV) Partner, Chevron Nigeria Limited have concluded conversation of its JV assets into Petroleum Industry Act( PIA) terms. The development is in line with the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, which stipulates that assets from the Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) must be transÃsted into PIA terms. Under the new PIA regime, all existing Oil Prospecting Licenses (OPLs) and Oil Mining Leases (OMLs) would be automatically converted to Petroleum Prospecting Lice