3m Litres Of Crude Oil Discovered In Port Harcourt

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Nigerian Army in 6 Division Port Harcourt has just discovered a reservoir of oil stocked at the Odagwa Etche area of Etche LGA in Rivers State. 

According to Major General in command of 6 Division, Jamal Abdusalam, the total of crude oil seen at 14 different reservoirs inside the forest was estimated above 3 million litres.

More revelations were discovered by the Nigerian force including tanks, cables and hoses used to drill crude oil from an abandoned well. 

The General gave more shocking insight in his quote, “The idea of bringing you here is to let Nigerians know exactly what is happening. You can see that this place is in a deep forest. Even if you are using a helicopter and military drones, you will not be able to see what we saw here on the ground. We discovered this based on credible intelligence which led us to this location.

“We have discovered so many illegal activities. As you can see, we have seen reservoirs that can contain upward of 200,000 litres of crude oil. We have discovered about 14 of them in this bush. We have also discovered boilers capable of processing crude oil; about 49 of them, all located inside this bush and we have seen the network of hoses and cables connected around the whole area.

“The crude oil we have discovered in this place is more than the daily crude oil export of Nigeria. This is very pathetic and very sad to note. Here we discovered 14 reservoirs and each reservoir stored a minimum of 200,000 litres of crude oil. So simple mathematics will give you over 3 million litres of crude oil that is stored. We are not talking about the ones that have been processed and taken out. These are the ones that we have discovered.”

Adding further, Abdusalam said key players of the business are yet to be apprehended just a few handling the end sales.

“This discovery is part of our efforts to ensure that government get what is due to it. The budget has been passed into law and the executive has also accented to it. That budget was planned based on some parameters. One of the parameters is the crude oil production that comes out every day. So any drop in crude oil production affects everybody in this country. Our people are not aware of that and that is why they are involved in this type of business.”

[Daily Trust/SA]