The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) are to install anti-theft integrated monitoring systems on pipelines, to monitor the facilities against crude oil theft, Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has disclosed.
Kyari gave the hint while speaking during the Petroleum Training Institute’s 50th Anniversary in Abuja, yesterday.
Nigeria has been losing billions of dollars for several years due to the activities of pipeline vandals who steal the country’s crude massively.
Kyari said both organisations are already in talks to form collaboration on a number of things, including expansion of capabilities in the areas of modern technology, energy transition and pipeline protection among others.
Also speaking at the event, the Principal/Chief Executive, PTI, Henry Adimula, said that institute had developed an oil anti-theft integrated monitoring system to effectively monitor pipelines. Adimula, who said this was one of the recent innovations of the PTI, also said: “We’ve produced an oil anti-theft integrated monitoring system for pipeline monitoring, and an air quality monitoring systems”.
In reaction, the NNPC Group CEO further said the oil company was pleased to hear what the Institute had done in terms of pipeline monitoring. He told the PTI that the NNPC would work with the institute to deploy the technology to further boost the monitoring of NNPC’s pipelines to address crude oil theft in Nigeria.
Kyari said the NNPC was collaborating with security agencies of the Federal Government to arrest and deter people from having access to Nigeria’s crude. Speaking on why energy was vital for Nigeria, the NNPC boss noted that millions of Nigerians were still lacking electricity and clean cooking fuel.
The PTI boss explained that the primary objective of the founding fathers was to train Nigerian nationals in order to increase the local content in the oil and gas sector, adding that the Institute is also engaged in research to improve the growth and development of the sector.
