{"id":61953,"date":"2020-02-14T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T02:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61953"},"modified":"2020-02-14T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T02:05:35","slug":"blast-shuts-oil-pipeline-feeding-nigerias-brass-oil-exports-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61953","title":{"rendered":"Blast shuts oil pipeline feeding Nigeria&#8217;s Brass oil exports: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/sites\/acquia.prod\/files\/styles\/720x400\/public\/2020-02-13T102920Z_1_RJ5_RTRLXPP_2_LYNXPACKAGER.JPG?itok=EBmScYUI\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>ABUJA, Feb 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria forced the local subsidiary of Italian oil major Eni to close a pipeline feeding the Brass oil export terminal, ENI and a security official said.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion on Monday was caused by vandalism, Christina Abiakam-Omanu, head of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps in the southern Bayelsa state in the Delta region, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe leakage aftermath of the explosion has been contained,\u201d she said, adding a suspect had been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Eni spokeswoman said on Thursday the pipeline was in a minor field and flow on the line had been halted for repair work. But she said the incident had a \u201cminimal\u201d impact on production, with the Brass export line still running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line transports crude to the Brass oil export terminal, which industry analyst FGE said was expected to export around 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are nine flowstations along a 460-km pipeline that feed the Brass terminal, according to information published by Eni. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Feb 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria forced the local subsidiary of Italian oil major Eni to close a pipeline feeding the Brass oil export terminal, ENI and a security official said. The explosion on Monday was caused by vandalism, Christina Abiakam-Omanu, head of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}