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Death toll reaches 60 in Nigeria's Friday oil pipeline fire |
2018-10-16 |
[Al Ahram] Sixty people were killed after a fire broke out on Friday on an oil pipeline in the southeast of Nigeria, a front man for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Monday, up from the tally of 16 dead given by officials three days earlier. The state oil company on Friday said pumping on the System 2E pipeline network had been halted. "We will resume the pumping of products very soon," NNPC front man Ndu Ughamadu told Rooters on Monday. "We had put out the fire. We are now pumping water in the pipeline to detect other possible areas of leakages." The System 2E pipeline is a key network that supplies imported gasoline and output from the Port Harcourt refineries to much of the southeast and north of the country. The two refining plants at Port Harcourt operate far below their 210,000 barrels per day capacity. In an emailed statement, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it had been prevented from pumping fuel to the southeastern Enugu Depot "which has remained underutilised despite its recent rehabilitation by the NNPC". Many oil spills in the southern oil production heartland of Africa's biggest crude producer are caused by theft and pipeline sabotage. The methods used to steal the oil often result in accidents that cause fires. The state oil company , which on Friday gave a corpse count of 16, said the fire had been caused by pipeline vandals who breached the pipeline in Ososioma near the southeastern city of Aba. |
Posted by:Fred |
#3 If they only had arms to put it out! Right CNBC? |
Posted by: Thregum Greath3827 2018-10-16 21:56 |
#2 When stealing oil from a pipeline it's recommended to extinguish all smoking materials. |
Posted by: jpal 2018-10-16 13:38 |
#1 Nigeria falls! Slowly, I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch. And then I *IGNITED*! (apologies to Larry, Moe & Curly) |
Posted by: SteveS 2018-10-16 11:57 |