Tag: Oil Theft
Nigerian Authorities Hopeful After Massive Oil Theft Busts
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation says that weeks of an intense crackdown on oil thieves have significantly reduced the scale of oil theft in...
Stop The Bleeding
The Buhari administration will do well to flush out the crude oil thieves and prosecute themWe cannot say we are fighting a war on...
Shell Nigeria Staff Accused of Orchestrating Oil Spills in Niger Delta...
An investigation has pointed to a suspicion that some Shell employees suspected to have hand in oil spillage in Nigeria would be beneficiaries from...
Five Indians Jailed for Oil Theft in Lagos
The Lagos Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of five illegal oil thieves to one...
Shell Blames Vandals, Oil Thieves for Two Spills in November
Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC), a leading international oil company, has confirmed that it recorded two oil spill cases and blamed Oil Thieves.
The...
Court Jails Nigerian, 6 Foreigners for Oil Theft from Shell Facility
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Tuesday that six foreigners and one Nigerian have been sentenced to seven years in prison...
Nigeria Loses $5.9 billion to Oil Theft
Waziri Adio, the Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), has revealed that Nigeria has lost over USD5.9billion in 2013 to oil theft.
According...
Oil Theft: NNPC to Deploy Drones in Nigeria’s Territorial Waters
…Says oil theft, pipeline vandalism claims 350 lives in three years
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) declared plans to deploy drones across the nation’s...