Some vandals have been arrested while carrying out an operation at the Port Harcourt Refinery in Rivers State….READ FULL ARTICLE...READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
Some of the suspects intercepted at night were caught with various items like Motorised Valva (MOV), termination cable assembly and copper cables.
Other items include hack saws, pliers used for cutting cables and rubbing used to shroud stolen materials and other vital equipment.
The suspects were discovered to have pilfered other expensive equipment like armoured cables.
Videos seen by THE WHISTLER showed that two inches of long pipeline connections were used to illegally tap petroleum products to feed suspected bunkering stations, located outside a plant.
The pipeline has an estimated stretch of 800 kilometres illegally tapped from Indorama, a company based in Eleme, Port Harcourt.
The vandals were said to have connected the pipes at a diversion on the Indorama line close to the Port Harcourt refinery police station.
The suspects were said to have also stolen the anodes installed in a storage tank to protect the tank from corrosion.
Each storage tank contains at least 70 sacrificial anodes, each up to one meter in length and weighing 10-20 kilograms, welded to the bottom of the tank internally.
Storage tanks’ sacrificial anodes are made from highly-priced aluminium or magnesium alloys and hold great rewards to vandals if they succeed in their quest to cut and move the anodes to the black market….READ FULL ARTICLE
