The Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor has revealed that the international oil company discovered and removed 460 illegal connections on its Trans Niger Pipeline before the facility could be restored after it was shut down for one year.
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria operates the TNP. It uses the pipeline to evacuate crude from oil fields in Rivers and parts of Bayelsa to the Bonny Crude Oil Export Terminal, as other IOCs lamented the grave impact of oil theft on their operations.
Okunbor revealed that the TNP remained shut for one year due to the massive crude oil theft on the pipeline, a development that also devastated the supply of gas to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited during the period.
