Explosion Rocks NPDC Abura Crude Trunk Line

An explosion has erupted on Abura crude trunk line in Otu Jeremi, Ughelli south local government area in Warri, Delta State, southern Nigeria.

YaahooJournalist reports that the explosion erupted on Abura crude trunk line at about 2 pm on Friday, August 30.

This online news medium understands that the line operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC with its joint partner ND Western is in OML 34.

As at the time of filing this report, no official comment on the likely cause of the eruption on the oil facility from the operators but community sources, says it would not be unconnected with activities of oil thieves.

Similarly, no staff of NPDC was ready to comment on the development at press time.

This was even as the Commander Sector One in Warri, Delta state, Operation Delta Safe, Col Habib Manu told journalists that effort was still on to unravel the cause of the incident.