Also on Sunday, Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder discovered and deactivated an illegal refining site laden with equipment, drums and pits with a storage capacity of about 30,000 litres of crude oil at the Okrika area of Rivers State.
The Nigerian Navy has said that its Ship Pathfinder under Operation Delta Sanity has discovered and destroyed multiple illegal oil refining sites and a wooden boat conveying illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) in Rivers and Bayelsa states.
Rivers and Bayelsa are in the South-South region of the country.
The Nigerian Navy said in posts made on its X handle that on Sunday, Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder discovered and deactivated a wooden boat conveying about 4,500 litres of illegally refined AGO along Bakama axis of Rivers State.
Also on Sunday, Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder discovered and deactivated an illegal refining site laden with equipment, drums and pits with a storage capacity of about 30,000 litres of crude oil at the Okrika area of Rivers State.
Also on Sunday, Forward Operating Base FORMOSO discovered and destroyed an illegal refining site with a large oven of about 40,000 litres of suspected stolen crude oil at Brass River and Akansa General area of Bayelsa State.
Similarly, it was announced that Nigerian Navy Ship SOROH discovered, deactivated and destroyed an “illegal refining site laden with equipment, speedboats and drums at Gbaram and Agbura communities in Bayelsa State on Saturday 2 March 2024”.
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