THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has refuted the report that it shut down its depot at Ejigbo to investigate persistent disappearance of petroleum products pumped into the facility.

Ndu Ughamadu, group general manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, told Realnews  on telephone that no depot has been shut down. “If there is any depot that is not working it was due to pipeline vandalism as in the case of Mosimi,” he said, stressing that Ejigbo depot is still operating.

Realnews recalls that System 2B Pipeline, Mosimi Area, was down for almost a year due to the activities of pipeline vandals along the Atlas Cove-Mosimi Pipeline Right of Way, PROW, a development that has led to crippling of commercial activities and loss of lives due to the nefarious activities of vandals.

However, petroleum products supply and distribution in the country received a major boost following the resumption of loading activities by the NNPC, at its Mosimi Area depot in Ogun State in April.

Maikanti Kacalla Baru, group managing director, who supervised the recommencement of loading operations at the area had said the development marked a major milestone in NNPC’s quest to ensure steady supply and distribution of white petroleum products across the entire nation.

Ejigbo is one of the depots under NNPC’s System 2B Pipeline Network, which is the most active network, accounting for 60 per cent of fuel supply and distribution in the country.

Under the System 2B, the NNPC pumps imported products from the Atlas Cove Depot in Lagos through pipelines to Ejigbo Depot also in Lagos and Mosimi Depot in Ogun State.

—  Jun 14, 2017 @ 17:50 GMT