Ahead of Easter celebrations and proactive measures at ensuring nationwide availability, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation re-opened loading activities at its Mosimi Area Depot in Ogun State signaling a regime of hitch-free products supply and distribution for operator and marketers.
Speaking while supervising the recommencement of loading operations at the Depot, Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, noted that the development marked a major milestone in NNPC’s quest to ensure steady supply and distribution of white petroleum products across the entire nation.Â
Represented by the Chief Operating Officer, Downstream, Mr. Henry Ikem-Obih, Dr. Baru said, “Today marks the beginning of a new era of hope and the return of commercial activities in this economic corridor, as products are being received in Atlas cove and pumped to Mosimi for on-ward pumping to Satellite depot and loading from these two (2) great depots in this Area.”Â
“This is a historic day for NNPC, the South West Region and indeed Nigeria as this great Area is once again back on stream, bringing more fortunes for all and sundry.
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“The stress of moving our trucks to Lagos to convey petroleum product to this area is getting highly-minimized.” Â
In a statement, NNPC recalled that System 2B Pipeline (Mosimi Area) had been down for almost a year now (since May, 2016) due to the activities of pipeline vandals along the Atlas Cove-Mosimi Pipeline Right of Way (PROW), a development that has led to crippling of commercial activities and loss of lives due to the nefarious activities of vandals.
“At some point, commercial activities that spun from our operations in this area had to be moved to Lagos. We can see that vandalism causes huge loss not only to NNPC, but to the host communities and the general public,” the GMD said.
He thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for the constant support in ensuring the revamping of critical oil and Gas infrastructures, especially Petroleum Products storage and distribution facilities that will aid effective distribution of products across the country.Â
“This effort will continue. Already, plans are underway to re-commission System 2D (Kaduna-Kano; Kaduna-Jos; Kaduna-Suleja) pipeline.
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“Very soon Kano, Jos and Suleja will experience the impact of our collective resolve to get these critical infrastructures back on stream” the GMD said.
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