{"id":112857,"date":"2024-06-27T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=112857"},"modified":"2024-06-27T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:59:37","slug":"navy-destroys-10-illegal-refining-sites-in-bayelsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/navy-destroys-10-illegal-refining-sites-in-bayelsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Destroys 10 Illegal Refining Sites In Bayelsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base in Brass, Bayelsa State, has destroyed 10 illegal refinery sites with a total capacity of refined 100,000 litres of stolen crude in Nembe Local Government Area of the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Commanding Officer, Forward Operating Base (FORMOSO), Capt. Ifeanyichukwu Mabeokwu, who disclosed this to newsmen, said the Nigerian Navy was poised to ensure illegal refining site and crude oil theft in the Niger Delta were decimated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe said, \u201cMy team and I are here to carry out deactivation operation in this illegally refining site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, there is a large one with over 10 refining units, it has cumulatively about 80 litres of illegally refined AGO, and 100,000 of stolen crude oil respectively.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cEssentially the illegally refining site is hidden away at the core of the Nembe creek and it took us the deployment of high resolution of drones to discover this site.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cNow it has been discovered, we are going to do everything possible to see that this does not exist and it will seize from this moment. The discovery was made early this morning (Thursday) at about 0630-700 hours,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe added that on arrival at the illegal refining sites, they met all the oven still active.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe said that the Navy would continue to facilitate a conducive environment for legitimate businesses to flourish and contribute to the nation\u2019s economic progress.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base in Brass, Bayelsa State, has destroyed 10 illegal refinery sites with a total capacity of refined 100,000 litres of stolen crude in Nembe Local&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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