Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has revealed that the oil pipelines that conveys crude oil to refineries in Niger Delta have been shut in, following attacks late last week.

“We shut in the pipelines as a result of the weekend development, please note that this is different from shut down,” NNPC’s spokesman Ohi Alegbe said.

The spokesman debunked reports that the refineries in Kaduna and Warri was shut down due to last week’s explosions. He added that the military are at present trying to control the situation which they see as an act of sabotage, “our production is still on.Once they give us the go-ahead to fix the pipelines, we will mobilize our engineers.”

Alegbe however, did not disclose the kind of impact the shutting of pipelines had on the volume of crude refined locally nor say whether it would change the timeline set for Nigeria to hit 10 million liters of locally refined petrol, World Bulletin reports.

Anita Fatunji