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Members of the newly established coastal areas pipeline surveillance team, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL), at the weekend intensified its search for illegal bunkering locations with the discovery of another platform connected to the 48-inch Trans-Forcados Export Trunk Line in Delta State. The latest discovery was said to have been made in a joint operations with the military task force based on intelligence gathering on the illegal activities going on in that area. It was reported that members of the cartel who specialise in crude oil theft siphoned large quantities into ocean going vessels from where they sailed abroad. It was observed that the professional manner in which the pipes were clamped on the abandoned platform belonging to Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC) clearly established the case of oil workers’ collaboration in the crude oil theft in the region as oil thieves lacked the technical know -how to carry out such fabrication.

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