Bunkering

Alleged Illegal Oil Bunkering: Navy Hands Over Five Suspects to EFCC (Yesterday) - The Nigerian Navy, through the Nigerian Navy today handed over five suspects arrested for illegal oil bunkering to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Agbabere said the vigilante group, the Community Development Committee and the youths were directed by a monarch in the area to put a stop to illegal oil bunkering activities there.

Some even leave the international oil companies to come and look for where to do illegal oil bunkering.

The number of vessel calls for bunkering stood at 3,478 last month.

The suspect, who now claims to be a freedom fighter for Ekpeye youth, denied accusations of kidnapping, illegal bunkering, and other crimes levelled against him.

The team saw clandestine refineries and illegal bunkering.

This year, ammonia bunkering and service-tank facilities were built with full ammonia containment in case of a leak.

You can’t see the putting surface from the approach, just the big bunkering and the flag.

According to reports, the Spanish Authorities have detained the Antigua Barbuda-flagged general cargo Tony Stark for causing an oil spill off Ceuta during a bunkering event.

Afolabi said that the illegal bunkering activities site was located at Nembe/Odagwa Creek in Etche LGA of the state.

Apart from kidnapping and its effects on the nation’s economy, illegal oil bunkering is also gravely affecting the economy.

Ayodele recalled that the NSCDC Commandant General, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, gave a marching order to all formations in the Niger Delta to step up intelligence and operational efficiency in the fight against oil theft and illegal oil bunkering activities.

He said only the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), not the navy, has the prerogative of awarding or overseeing oil bunkering contracts.

Nigerian Navy (NN) Thursday arrested two suspects for allegedly operated illegal oil bunkering storage facility and confiscated 56 bags of canabis sativa in an operation in Rivers and Lagos states.

Residents have barely had time to recover from the last storm, which killed 230 people across the US, before evacuating or bunkering down for a second time.

Such criminal activities include oil bunkering, trafficking in drugs, humans, arms trafficking, piracy and corruption.

The commander said the suspects helped oil thieves evade detection with fraudulent documents, perpetuating illegal bunkering in the region.

With this in mind, the company said, it proposes to use some of its support vessels as a bunkering vessel which will provide services exclusively to the Van Oord construction fleet during the project.

Although Brooks had been bunkering down at the location throughout the quarantine, it’s also the same place where they tied the knot almost three years ago — so the significance of that spot could not be understated!

In the face of these challenges, stakeholders were said to have condemned the activities of the oil bunkering that was linked to the explosion of the pipeline and said that it was not healthy for the livelihood of the generality of the people.