Oil major Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary is launching investigations into reports that an illegal oil tap ran for nine years on a pipeline it operates, a Spokesperson said on Wednesday. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, Limited, NNPCL, claims that the theft point extended from the Trans Escravos pipeline and that the Afremo platform, operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), was the suspected exit point of the stolen crude. “We are also conducting an investigation to establish where the theft lines end and whether there have been any…
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