…..as. NNPC partners institute on technology deployment.
The Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) says it has developed a monitoring device that could stop crude oil theft in the country.
The Principal and Chief Executive Officer of PTI, Henry Adimula disclosed this at the Institute’s 50th anniversary.
He said the system was one of the recent innovations of the PTI adding that the institute has also developed a robot that for early detection and prevention of corrosion of oil facilities.
” We ‘ve produced an oil anti- theft integrated monitoring system for pipeline monitoring, and an air quality monitoring systems.
” We have Al’s and have developed a corrosion robot for early detection of localised corrosion and prevent loss of integrity of the facilities among others”.
Nigeria has been losing billions of dollars for several years due to the activities of pipeline vandals.
Delivering his address at the event, the Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPC, Mele Kyari, said the oil company was pleased to hear what the institute had done in terms of pipeline monitoring.
Kyari told the PTI that NNPC would work with the institute to deploy the technology to check oil theft.
, “We need to produce oil and gas. We are trying to address the massive oil theft. We will overcome it, but clearly it is something we also need to work together to resolve.
“That is why I’m happy to hear the PTI coming up with solutions that will be able to monitor pipelines.”
The Group CEO said the NNPC was collaborating with security agencies of the federal government to arrest and deter people from having access to Nigeria’s crude.
