The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that the drop in crude oil production for the first quarter of 2013 was due to incessant crude oil theft and vandalism along the major pipelines within the Niger Delta.
Daily crude oil production during the period fluctuated between 2.1
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