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NNPC destroys 134 Illegal Refineries Recently

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
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Savannah/Notore aggrement will impact on fertiliser production


 

By Akinola Ajibade




Savannah Energy Plc has signed a new gas sales aggrement with Notore Chemical Industries, in order to help improve production of fertilisers and other agro allied products in the country.
The firm's Chief Executive officer, Andre Knott, in a statement signed and made available to News Mirror said that the Gas Sales Agreement ( GSA) with Notore would further boost activities between the two companies.
He said: " I'm pleased to welcome Notore as a new gas customer to Accugas, representing our tenth customer site in total ( versus three at the same time of our acquisition of the Accugas in 2019. We look forward to develop our working relationship with Notore in the next few months and years". 
The firm, Knott added, is undertaken the responsibility of selling gas to Notore through 
 its 80 per cent owned subsidiary- Acugas Limited. 
Hitherto, Savannah Energy has entered gas sales agreements with some  companies in order to scale up activities of power generation firms in the country.
The gas sales agreement with Notore, is the latest of such efforts made by the British Energy Independent Company to grow the Nigerian energy and allied sectors.
Similarly, the Chain Reactions Africa's Senior Consultant, Chidiebere Onuoha said that would help improve gas usage in the industry.
According to him, Accugas will be supplying Notore up to 10MMscufpd feet of gas in order to help augment its current supplies.
" The contracted supply is on an interruptible and reasonable endeavours basis, based on gas availability and nominations for an initial term of one year, with the option to extend for a mutually agreed period. Notore fertilizer is connected to the  Accugas network via the Nigerian Gas Company pipeline form Ikot Abasi and no further tie-in or capital expenditure is required is required by Accugas to deliver the product to Notore" he said.
Notore Chemical Industries, he said, is  a Nigerian-based integrated agro-allied, chemicals and infrastructure company located in the Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone area of Rivers state.

 




 

 

 





 

 

   


 


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