OML 40 suffers 2nd explosion in 4 months, shuts-in 10,000 barrels

Another explosion on Tuesday, November 3, rocked a production facility in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 40, impacting about 10,000 barrels of oil per day. The explosion, checks by Platforms  Africa showed, occured four months after a similar incident at the same OML 40 killed seven people in July this year. The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an upstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which confirmed this in a late night statement on Tuesday, added that no casualty or injury was recorded from the explosion. The statement issued…

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