Monitors Nigerian Navy coastal interdictions, crude oil pipeline tapping and illegal artisanal refining deactivations under Operation Delta Sanity, counter-piracy boardings across the Gulf of Guinea (Exclusive Economic Zone), and fisheries protection. Sourced from Nigerian Navy operational releases, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), and investigative defense desks.
Confiscated by naval patrol gunboats from illicit Cotonou wooden barges, hidden storage pits, and active artisanal cooking hubs across Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta states.
Bunkering Interdictions
Piracy Attempts Foiled
Suspects Apprehended
Nigeria controls 853 km of coastline, 12 nm of territorial waters, and a 200 nm Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) encompassing key deepwater export terminals:
Statutory technical output and fiscal metering data officially published by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC Monthly Portal) and NNPC Limited’s War on Crude Oil Theft operational ledger (NNPC Disclosures).
Global reporting centre on Gulf of Guinea piracy and armed boarding attacks.
Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure.
Official monthly upstream technical output and terminal export ledgers.
Operational bulletins from Operation Delta Sanity and FOBs.
War on Crude Oil Theft joint pipeline surveillance & interdiction audits.
Judicial prosecution tracking under the Nigerian SPOMO Act 2019.
Troops of NNS Pathfinder deployed gunboats following Falcon Eye radar cues, intercepting a Cotonou wooden boat illegally siphoning crude from a Trans-Niger Pipeline valve. Four suspects were apprehended and handed to the NSCDC.
Western Naval Command patrol vessels intercepted motor tanker MT SWEET MARY 18 nautical miles off Lagos fairway buoy while conducting an illicit STS transfer without naval clearance. 11 crew members detained.
Naval amphibious assault teams uncovered and deactivated 8 active artisanal cooking hubs equipped with 14 storage tanks, 9 dugout pits, and siphoned crude along the Nembe Creek trunk line.
Armed sea robbers in two speedboats attempted to scale the freeboard of a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier 42 nm southwest of Brass Offshore Terminal. NNS Prosperity vectored an SBS team, repelling the boarding.
Nigerian Navy personnel in collaboration with Tantita Security Services operatives uncovered an illegal manifold welded directly onto the 24-inch Trans-Niger Pipeline. The tap point had siphoned oil into a loading creek for 6 months.
Offshore Patrol Vessel NNS Centenary boarded and arrested foreign-flagged fishing vessel FV HAI LU 12 for operating 9 nautical miles off Pennington River without a valid coastal fishing license from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.
Troops executing Operation Delta Sanity Phase III conducted swamp clearing operations around Bennett Island, deactivating 12 refining ovens, 16 storage vats, and seizing 180,000 litres of illegally cooked Automotive Gas Oil.
Forward Operating Base Bonny intercepted an unflagged tugboat towing a steel barge laden with illegally obtained crude oil heading toward international waters without export documentation.