N470M LOST DAILY TO GAS PIPELINE ATTACKS –FG

Last weekend’s attack on the Nigeria Gas Company’s pipeline connected to Chevron Nigeria Limited’s facility at Escravos in Delta State is costing the economy a daily loss of N470m and has also resulted in the shutdown of two of the country’s refineries.

 

According to the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, the vandalism of the gas pipeline would impact negatively on the Olorunsogo National Integrated Power Project plant, which has capacity for 600 megawatts of electricity, and other power plants across the country.

 

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PANDEMONIUM, AS WORKERS ISSUE 21-DAY ULTIMATUM TO CHEVRON

There was pandemonium, weekend, at the Chevron Escravos Terminal in Delta State, as the Escravos branch of the Seamen and Water Transport Workers Union, one of the wings of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, clashed with the management of Chevron Nigeria Ltd, during which the union gave a 21 day ultimatum to the company to fix an employment impasse involving it and the company or face a forceful shut down of its operations in the area.

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WORK RESUMES AT ESCRAVOS-LAGOS GAS PIPELINE

Construction workers handling the phase 2 of the Escravos-Lagos Gas Pipeline Expansion project  returned to site yesterday at Igbooye, in the suburb of Epe, Lagos State.

The development was sequel to a peace agreement sealed between the parties on payment of compensation and other issues last Saturday.

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