Niger Delta Avengers blowup major and strategic oil facility

Niger Delta Avengers blowup major and strategic oil facility 

The Niger Delta Avengers have continued their onslaught on oil installations in the region with the blowing up of the Chevron Valve Platform in Abiteye, Warri North council area of Delta State. Security sources who spoke to Vanguard stated that the platform is a major connecting point where all other platforms link up and serves as a fulcrum to chevron BOP and the Chevron Tank farm thereby halting all operations of the company in the region. 

Ijaw youths shut Jones Creek oil facility, threatening dwindling oil revenue

Ijaw youths shut Jones Creek oil facility, federal revenue may decline further

Revenue accruing from the sale of crude oil, Nigeria’s economic mainstay, may further dip this week following the shut-in of over 200, 000 barrels of the product by aggrieved youths in Warri South -West, Delta State on Thursday.

The protesting youths seized the oil facility, popularly called the Jones Creek Oil Field, which is owned and managed by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC.