Nigerian Navy foils return of illegal refining activities in Rivers

The Nigerian Navy has announced that it has foiled renewed attempts to re-establish amerciable refining operations successful Rivers State.

A connection issued by Captain Abiodun Folorunsho, Director of Naval Information, said based connected credible intelligence, unit from the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Pathfinder, operating nether Operation Delta Sentinel, executed an anti-crude lipid theft cognition successful the Oseokishikpa country of Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area successful Rivers State.

During the operation, naval unit discovered 2 amerciable refining sites, which included 8 dugout pits and reservoirs containing an estimated 15,000 litres of suspected stolen crude lipid and 105,000 litres of suspected illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil, AGO.

The connection emphasized that the cognition not lone disrupted illicit activities but besides thwarted the re-establishment of a refining web susceptible of perpetuating crude lipid theft and causing biology harm.

Furthermore, it stated that the amerciable refining sites and the recovered products were managed successful accordance with existing anti-crude lipid theft protocols, thereby denying economical saboteurs entree to resources meant to enactment their transgression activities.

The Nigerian Navy reiterated its committedness to maintaining intelli...