A fire gutted a depot in the Apapa area of Lagos State.
The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service is attending to the fire, which resulted from a spillage of petroleum products within the perimeter of the tank farm.
As of the time of filing this report, the Director and Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State Fire Service, Margaret Adeseye, told Channels Television, that concerted efforts to contain the situation with various emergency responders within the oil and gas industry, were ongoing.
“As of 13:10 hours Friday, the Fire has been put out by the joint efforts of emergency responders coordinated by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service without any recorded casualty,” she said.
“This will pave the way for investigation into the cause of the Fire as the mopping-up exercise continues.”
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While the agency had said the incident was a depot belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the firm said the inferno did not happen in its facility.
“The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) wishes to clarify that the fire incident at a tank farm in Marine Beach, Apapa, Lagos, was at a depot belonging to HOGL Energy Ltd (Honeywell Depot), and not an NNPC Retail Ltd.’s facility as circulated by early responders,” NNPCL Chief Corporate Communications Officer Olufemi Soneye said in a statement.