According to the details of the summarised report, the Aba-Enugu axis
in the system 2E pipeline corridor was responsible for most of the
ruptured points.
A spokesman for the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Ndu
Ughamadu, says pipelines were breached 106 times in June, an increase
from 60 vandalized points in May.
He said this in a statement on Sunday as NNPC released its 47th
monthly financial and operations report.
According to the details of the summarised report, the Aba-Enugu axis
in the system 2E pipeline corridor was responsible for most of the
ruptured points.
It accounted for 25 percent of the damaged sections. The Lagos Atlas
Cove-Mosimi axis of the system 2B had was next with 23 percent of the
punctured pipeline points.
The Ibadan-Ilorin corridor of the System 2B pipeline followed-up with
18 percent of affected lines.
The Port Harcourt-Aba route of the system 2E pipeline was the least
concentrated area with burst pipeline points, accounting for 13
percent of the affected breaches.
Other portions of the pipeline combined for 21 percent of cumulative
line breaks. The release stated that the corporation which has since
taken over much of the petroleum importation duties distributed 1.76bn
litres of petrol in June.
Ughamadu said this amounted to daily consumption of 58.65m litres,
indicating that smuggling across the country’s borders could still be
a thriving business.
In the gas subset of the petroleum industry, the report said 223.98
billion Cubic Feet (BCF) of natural gas was produced in the month
under review, translating to an average daily production of 7,466.09
million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd).
The figure posted a slight increase of 0.11 percent, compared with the
previous month’s gas production.
For June, last year, to June this year, a total of 3,063.89 BCF of gas
was produced, representing an average daily production of 7,873.58
mmscfd during the period.