The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has commended the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, on the rehabilitation and protection of the country’s pipelines.
The union expressed its appreciation during a courtesy visit by a delegation of the national executive of the union led by its National Chairman, Dr. Timothy Ogbu, to the NNPC’s headquarters in Abuja.
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has commended the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, on the rehabilitation and protection of the country’s pipelines.
The union expressed its appreciation during a courtesy visit by a delegation of the national executive of the union led by its National Chairman, Dr. Timothy Ogbu, to the NNPC’s headquarters in Abuja.
Ogbu said the union was very impressed with Yakubu’s effort in rehabilitating the pipelines and depots, which had been giving all operators in the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry nightmares over the years.
Ogbu said: “We want to thank the Group Managing Director for the successes recorded in this area and hope that the tempo will not only be sustained, but also be improved upon in other areas that have been bedevilled in the industry such as the Aba-Makurdi-Yola line, the Ibadan-Ilorin line, and that of Warri-Kaduna-Jos- Gombe –Maiduguri.”
He said his union cherishes the cordial relationship it has with NNPC and promised to ensure that the harmonious relationship is sustained for the good of all Nigerians.
Yakubu thanked the union leaders for recognizing the effort of his management in aggressively addressing the downstream infrastructure challenge, adding that the commendation means a call to do more the corporation and him.
He explained that the rehabilitation of the pipelines and depots is only a part of the mandate given to him by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, which includes the rehabilitation of the refineries for optimum capacity utilization.
“We can’t achieve optimum capacity utilisation in the refineries without having the pipelines and depots in good shape for effective product evacuation and distribution, that is why we are fixing them so that by the time we complete the rehabilitation of the refineries we won’t have any problem with distribution and storage,” he said.
Yakubu said the corporation was deploying the horizontal directional drilling technology at all the trouble spots where pipeline sabotage and products theft are rife across the country, adding that the process has already been flagged off at Arepo.
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