Damaged cars are seen following a blast at a Nigerian oil refinery on April 23, 2022, in this photo released by the Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

Eight suspected illegal oil bunkers have been arrested by joint patrol team of the Niger Delta Security and Surveillance (NDSS) , the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ondo State ...

Every day, oil companies in Nigeria lose between 300,000 and 400,000 barrels of oil to illegal theft. Theft accounts for roughly 15 percent of Nigeria’s 2.4 million barrels per day produced.

Over 280,000 litres of stolen crude oil had been recovered in the past week, he added, with 63 illegal oil bunkering sites and 11 illegal pipeline connections also uncovered.

Troops of 6 Division, Nigerian Army, arrested six suspects during a clearance operation on an illegal oil bunkering site at Umuedeokwara Community, Odogwa Town in Etche Local Government Area of ...

The prosecutor told the court that they were arraigned for conspiracy, illegal crude bunkering, stealing, illegal possession of a firearm, and tempering with oil pipelines.

Illegal oil bunkering is effectively Nigeria’s most profitable private business. The stolen crude can currently be sold at around U.S.$15 to $20 per barrel on the spot market, ...

Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, yesterday, alleged that soldiers were the merchants of oil bunkering in the Niger Delta and that they have video and pictorial evidence of their involvement in crude oil ...

Opec nation lost $750 million to illegal crude oil bunkering in 2019. Politics. Nigeria weakened by oil theft and the militant menace. ... Delta State in June 2016 Photo: ...

A Nigerian crude oil pipeline was sabotaged in the Niger Delta while 22 Filipinos were arrested after their ship was intercepted for carrying stolen oil, a military spokesman said on Saturday.

The 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, says its troops have deactivated 13 illegal bunkering sites, destroyed over 150 locally-made ovens as well as four boats and recovered over ...

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