The
The facility is operated by the
In a document, it presented to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting for last month, which held
With 20,000 barrels of crude oil lost per day, the corporation stated that at least 400,000 barrels were lost cumulatively within the period the facility was inoperative.
Aside from the 400,000 barrels lost to the virus, 17 of the country's terminals had one issue or the other leading to shut-ins that cost
In Forcados, the injection into the facility was curtailed due to repairs at Otegbele, Eresigbere and Chanomi
Also, receipts were curtailed at the same terminal due to leaks observed along with the system and subsequent repairs of the Trans Forcados pipeline in which another 360,000 barrels were shut in
Also, at the Akpo facility, there was a production confinement of 60,000 barrels on the 25th of the same month, while at the Bonga oil facility, power outage resulted in a shutdown on
The Amenam terminal was shut down from 25 to 28 of February, to rev up compliance with the production quota imposed on members by the
The NNPC document indicated that Erha experienced deferred production and later complete shutdown for the repair of an epoxy (coated) pipe
Escravos suffered a 252,000 barrels' loss as a result of routine maintenance shutdown, while Addax Petroleum's production into Brass and Seplat's 28,000 barrels, as well as 15,000 barrels, were curtailed due to a strike embarked upon by workers of the NAOC in Ebocha and what the corporation described as a third party interference, respectively.
According to the NNPC, Egina came second in the month's losses with a princely 600,000 barrels
In Bonny, Ohaji was shut down due to a leak on Egbema/Asa trunkline
While Pennington lost 50,000 barrels cumulatively due to vessel swap and chain adjustment, Ebok had 69,000 barrels of its productive shut in also due to pigging activities.
The story was not different for Tulja which had its production disrupted for maintenance purposes, leading to a loss of 27,000 barrels, while Ima experienced a controlled shutdown for maintenance, losing 28, 000 barrels in 28 days in the process.
For a summary of receipts due in March, the NNPC document, which was signed by the corporation's Chief Financial Officer, Mr.
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