Niger Delta Avengers blow up Chevron’s highest swamp producing platforms

The Niger Delta Avengers have again blow up Chevron’s Oil Remote Manifold Platforms (RMP) 23 and RMP 24 at the DIBI Field around Tisun and Kolokolo towns in the deep riverine area of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State purely located within the Itsekiri domain where heavy military presence is the order of the day.

According to a tweet on the groups Twitter handle, “with the heavy presence of 100 gunboats, 4 warships and Jet Bombers NDA blew up Chevron Oil Well RMP 23 and RMP 24 3:44am this morning (Wednesday June 1)”.

It was learnt that the attack on the facility allegedly took place around 3:44am, which according to the Avengers is to prove their point that the Nigerian military cannot safeguard the nation’s oil and gas facilities from their attack.

They charged the military to desist from harassing innocent Ijaw persons in Gbaramatu communities, even as sources disclosed that the RMP 23 and RMP 24 are Chevron’s swamp highest oil producing Platforms.

No official of the American oil major was willing to comment on the blow up, just as security personnel also declined to confirm the blast.

The RMPs are located in such remote area that no worker lives around it and does not have accommodation facilities. Workers only come to work and return back to their various locations.

A platform is a facility that receives crude from multiple wells around certain radius. And with the blow up of the RMP 23 and RMP 24 Chevron must now be losing huge quantities of crude resulting to loss of revenue and monumental environmental degradation as well as pollution of farm lands and aquatic lives.

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