NARTO calls for demolition of structures on pipelines way


To safeguard Nigeria’s pipeline network and checkmate the rising incidence of vandalism and products theft, transport owners have called on the Federal Government to demolish structures on the pipelines right of way, ROW, by properly demarcating the assets.
Speaking at the end of the 2015 edition of the Oil Trading Logistics Conference in Lagos yesterday, the President, National Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, Alhaji Kasim Bataiya, argued that the pipelines ROW cannot be properly monitored due to the inappropriate structures built on them.
He said: “Today, on most of the Nigerian pipelines you can see even structures built on top of them, the ROW have been identified by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, but there is no proper demarcation.”
As a result, he insisted that the pipelines ROW must be properly demarcated, as the structures built on them portend grave danger to Nigerians and the economy.
Already Nigeria is losing so much from both crude and products theft through pipelines vandalism. It is estimated that as at August 2015, the country had lost about N51.714billion to crude oil thieves in addition to another $300million annually to those stealing refined products from vandalised pipelines.
To curtail the menace of pipeline vandalism and products theft, the Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had said that government will deploy drones for pipelines surveillance, in addition to reinforcing military efforts.


Check the Vanguard newspaper for the full story.














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