Pipeline
- Community issues shut-in 208MW from Shell’s Afam-six plant
By Chineme Okafor
The presidency, at the weekend, said the activities of petroleum pipeline vandals in the Niger Delta region were increasingly becoming a serious threat to operations in Nigeria’s power sector.
It, therefore, called on Nigeria’s national security formations to consider pipeline vandalism as a national treat and take full measures against perpetrators of the act.
Its declaration came on the heels of a disclosure that power supply from the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) operated 624 megawatts (MW) Afam-6 combined cycle power plant in Rivers State has remained shot of 208MW owing to existing interference from its host community, Ayama.
The Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Power (PTFP), Beks Dagogo-Jack, who disclosed this, while inspecting some vandalised petroleum pipeline sites in Rivers State, said the quantum of pipeline vandalism in the region had affected the operations of thermal power plants, which were often shut-down owing to drop in gas supplies.
Dagogo-Jack explained that the implication of such incidents is that the country was often thrown into darkness each time the pipelines were vandalized.
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