Nigeria’s NNPC Suffered More Than 45,000 Oil Pipeline Breaks Over 18 Years

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) reported as many as 45,347 incidents of breaches on its oil pipelines between 2001 and mid-2019, the corporation’s managing director Mele Kyari said on Tuesday, after an explosion believed to have been caused by oil thieves killed at least five people late on Sunday. NNPC and the other oil companies operating in Nigeria need to be able to operate efficiently so that Nigeria’s economy can prosper, NNPC’s head Kyari said, as carried by Nigerian media. “Unfortunately, the combination…