Chairman, Petroleum Product Monitoring Services Prince Henry Omorodion, has assured oil and gas workers who had threatened to stop production due to the menace of vandals, that adequate logistics are in the offing to curtail excesses of the vandals.
In a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, Prince Omorodion who is also the Chairman of Hensmor oil company, disclosed that PPMS is in partnership with the House of Representatives, with a view to finding permanent solution to oil theft in the country.
Apparently reacting to threats by the oil and gas workers union that the union members would suspend production if the government failed to checkmate the rate of activities of vandals, the chairman disclosed that PPMS had brought in foreign experts from Georgia, United States of America. He added that pressure from the presidency and from Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum, Hon Muraina Ajibola, facilitated action of PPMS in bringing the foreign experts and gadgets into the country.
The oil magnate further disclosed that, PPMS and the House Committee would meet to inspect the gadgets, adding that the gadgets would be mounted at a strategic location for effective monitoring and curbing of oil theft.
It is interesting to note that PPMS introduced petroleum monitoring in all parts of the country, since Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime. Since then it has been researching on how to end pipeline vandalism. Subsequently, PPMS has resolved to import sophisticated gadgets to put an end to the activities of the vandals.
Last Wednesday, representatives of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association in the South-West with Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, held a stakeholders meeting in Ibadan. In the meeting, NSCDC tasked IPMA to provide logistics to enable the security outfit effectively curb activities of vandals.