Petroluem Products: Navy Destroys Illegal Refineries In Warri, Port Harcourt - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
June 19, 2019
The Nigerian Navy has destroyed some illegalrefineries tucked in the hard to reach areas of the Niger-Delta creeks.
In the latest operations, the navy destroyed someillegal refineries located in Warri and Port Harcourt the commercial nervecentres of Delta and Rivers states.
Some of the areas combed by the navy include theBenette Island and Yeye creeks in Warri as well as Bakana creek in PortHarcourt.
Over 80 drums of 250 litres of products and 13suspects were arrested during the Portharcourt Operation.
The illegal refiners are said to get their productsby either breaking oil pipelines or wellheads, after which they proceed totheir refineries where they distill the crude and then dispense to buyers whocome from various parts of the cities by boat.
Commodore Ibrahim Idewu, the Commander NNS Delta, says this breach, in the long run, affects the country’s oil production capacity while the refined products end up damaging the facilities and equipment of users.