Nigeria counts 721 incidents of pipeline vandalisation this year

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Nigeria counts 721 incidents of pipeline vandalisation this year

08-09-00 A total of 721 incidents of pipeline vandalisation, 82 of which resulted in explosions, have so far been recorded across the country this year. The figures were released by Joe Oduocha, manager of government and community from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, at a workshop on pipeline vandalisation in the capital Abuja. He appealed to the local communities to help the government check vandalisation of oil pipeline which caused loss of lives and property and environmental devastation.

Nigeria is the biggest oil-producing country in Africa with output of more than 2 mm bpd, but residents in the oil-producing areas complained they benefited little from oil revenues.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nta04021.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), October 10, 2000


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