NUPENG Inaugurates Committee On Oil Theft

The Port Harcourt Zone of National Union of Petroleum and
Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG)  has set up
a committee as part of its efforts to tackle oil theft.

Mr Godwin Eruba, the Chairman of the union, stated this
while speaking to The Tide in Port Harcourt.

He said that the union was working with security agents to
ensure that oil theft in the Niger-Delta region was curtailed, stressing that
oil theft is a major challenge facing the development of the oil and gas
industry.

“We have been working round the clock and collaborating with
security agents to check oil theft. Whenever we notice such illegal oil
bunkering, we report to the relevant authorities. “Our union also assists the
taskforce in patrolling oil pipelines on daily basis in the Niger-Delta,” he
said.

The chairman said that “all hands must be on deck to stop
oil theft in the country”.

Comrade Eruba said the union is ready to work assiduously to
stop the menace, stressing that government needed to provide more support.

“NUPENG is ever willing to support government; it cannot do
it alone.

“We need the partnership with the government because the
fight against oil bunkering is very tasking and expensive,” he said.

Eruba said that NUPENG’s knowledge about the upstream and
downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry would be helpful in the fight
against the scourge.

The NUPENG’s boss
said “any of our members caught in this illegal business will be suspended. As
I am speaking with you today, there are top ranking NUPENG officials that have
been under suspension for their involvement in oil bunkering“.

Stories by Philip Okparaji