BREAKING NEWS, Oil & Gas
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IBE Kachikwu, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has hinted that the corporation may settle for the option of community based policing to protect the vast artery of oil and gas pipeline network across the country.
Receiving Perry John Calderwood, Canadian high commissioner to Nigeria, who paid a courtesy visit to the NNPC headquarters, Abuja, Kachikwu promised to give a lot of attention to the perennial menace of pipeline vandalism and oil theft.
“I intend to give a lot of energy to the issue of oil theft and pipeline vandalism. We must keep the losses from oil theft to the lowest figure possible. I don’t believe in the arm -for-arm approach, we must engage the host communities and inculcate in them the need to see the assets in their domain as their own,’’ Kachikwu said.
The GMD said that in the months ahead, the NNPC would initiate discussions with community leaders and interest groups with a view to fashioning a workable community oriented pipeline protection format with less emphasis on the use of brute force to secure the lines.
He also solicited for support from Canadian companies on the nation’s refineries, stating that Nigeria could make do with Canada’s vast experience in refining and expertise in oil and gas operations.
In his response, Calderwood said the Canadian government and business entities were willing to work with the NNPC in growing the Nigeria oil and gas industry to enviable heights.
— Aug 31, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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