Kemi Yesufu,Kehinde Akintola Abuja
Oil giant, Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited has rolled out emergency measures to curtail the fire outbreak at the Nembe Creek Trunk Line, which occurred on the 21st April 2019.
In a swift response to the ugly incident, Aiteo resolved to
shut in injection as well as other related operations into the NCTL, after the deployment of its operations emergency response team.
“”We have been informed of a fire outbreak by our surveillance team comprising the JTF, FSS around NCTL RoW near Awoba today, 21 April 2019.
“Our Operations Emergency Response team was immediately activated and following its urgent intervention and containment action, we are constrained to shut in injection as well as other related operations into the NCTL.
“In accordance with standard procedure, we requested the other injectors to do the same.
“The NCTL has, hitherto, enjoyed smooth operations preceding this incident founding suspicion that this fire may have occurred through an illegitimate, third-party breach of the functionality of the pipeline.
“In the meantime, the relevant investigations are continuing while further information about the remote and direct causes of the fire will be communicated as soon as these become available.
“We ask our stakeholders to await further, detailed briefing in due course,” Aiteo urged in a statement made available to Frontline Newspaper.
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