By SINL Reporter
The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an upstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has reported an explosion at a production facility in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 40 involving its partners Elcrest Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited while carrying out production evacuation at Gbetiokun Early Production facility.
A statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, and made available to SINL Nigeria Online stated that there were no fatalities or injuries and no significant spill in the incident.
“There was, however, significant damage to the marine storage vessel, MT Harcourt, which will impact production by about 10,000barrels of oil per day”.
The statement added that NNPC has since commenced investigation to ascertain the cause of the incident with a view to averting future occurrence.
