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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced today that it has resumed loading of petroleum products from its Mosimi Area depot in Ogun State. The corporation said the newly reopened depot would ease the supply and distribution of petroleum product in the South West region.

In May last year, NNPC shut down its System 2B Pipeline (Mosimi Area depot) owing to the activities of pipeline vandals along the Atlas Cove-Mosimi Pipeline Right of Way. The outage forced the corporation to begin trucking products from Lagos to Ogun State and its environs.

“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. The stress of moving our trucks from Lagos to convey petroleum product to this area is getting highly minimized,” said Henry Ikem-Obih, NNPC’s Chief Operating Officer, Downstream. Obih represented Maikanti Baru, NNPC’s Group Manging Director, at the depot reopening over the weekend.

“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 NNPC executive said the reopening of loading activities at the Mosimi Area was in line with the corporation’s drive to ensure the development of oil and gas infrastructure for effective distribution of products across the country.

Besides the Mosimi Area pipeline and depot, Obih said NNPC had recently rehabilitated and re-streamed other facilities such as the System 2E (Port Harcourt-Aba) pipeline after over a decade of poor functionality.

“This effort will continue. Already, plans are underway to re-commission System 2D (Kaduna-Kano; Kaduna-Jos; Kaduna-Suleja) pipeline. Very soon Kano, Jos and Suleja will experience the impact of our collective resolve to get these critical infrastructures back on stream,” Obih said.

In his remarks, Kunle Bamigboye, the Vice Chairman of the Western Zone of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), commended the NNPC for resuming operations at the area.

“By achieving this feat, the NNPC has a special place in the hearts of all IPMAN members in this area. We as one indivisible entity will continue to support the corporation to deliver on its mandate to Nigerians,” Bamigboye said.