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Escravos-Lagos Pipeline Explodes

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Nigeria’s state-run oil and gas firm, NNPC, reported that there was an explosion on a ruptured gas pipeline on January 11. The company reported in a statement that the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline was hit by an explosion along Egbokodo-Omadino in the Warri region of Delta state, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said.

Repairs are to start immediately, it said.

The Escravos-Lagos Pipeline supplies gas to power plants and the West Africa Gas Pipeline System.


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