Navy destroys illegal refinery in Rivers, intercepts stolen petroleum products

The Nigerian Navy has intensified its crackdown connected crude lipid theft and amerciable bunkering, destroying a reactivated amerciable refinery tract successful Rivers State and intercepting suspected stolen petroleum products successful Calabar, Cross River State.

The Director of Naval Information, Capt. Abiodun Folorunsho, disclosed this successful a connection connected Sunday successful Abuja.

Folorunsho said unit of the Nigerian Navy Ship SOROH, operating nether Operation DELTA SENTINEL, destroyed a reactivated amerciable refinery tract astatine Okolomade Community successful Abua-Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State.

He said the enactment followed credible quality that a antecedently dismantled amerciable refining tract had resumed operations.

According to him, an Anti–Crude Oil Theft (Anti-COT) squad deployed to the determination discovered that the dismantled refining oven had been reconstructed.

“Further exploitation of the country led to the find of further refining instrumentality and retention facilities containing astir 3,000 litres of merchandise suspected to beryllium illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil, AGO,” helium said.

Folorunsho added that the amerciable refining infra...