Explosion rocks Trans Niger pipeline in Rivers

By Clement Adeyi, Abuja

An explosion, on Monday, rocked a section of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) in Bodo Community in Gonna Local Government Area of Rivers State.

TPN, a federal transport line that supplies oil to the Bonny Export Terminal in Rivers State, transports 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day to Bonny Export Terminal, using a pipeline network.

The second explosion in Omwawriwa community, Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State

The Insight gathered that the incident occurred late Monday night near the Bodo-Bonny Road under construction.

An eye witness who preferred anonymity, said that thick black smoke was billowing into the atmosphere with a raging fire which spread fast into the mangrove from a video that emerged on Tuesday morning.

A media person in the Renaissance Renaissance Africa Energy Holdings said the company was currently responding to the incident.

We also gathered that the incident ignited a fire that had been raging through the mangrove areas.

We don’t know if it is an explosion or not

The Renaissance Africa Energy media team member, who preferred anonymity, said: “We don’t know if it is an explosion or not, but we are responding to the report of an incident in the operation. Our response is a regulator-led joint investigation team. We are not going to speculate.”

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