The state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) will install integrated anti-theft surveillance systems on pipelines to monitor crude oil theft, The Punch newspaper reported.
Nigeria has lost billions of dollars over the years due to pipeline vandalism.
PTI's managing director, Henry Adimula, revealed that the institute had developed an integrated anti oil theft monitoring system.
A corrosion robot and artificial intelligence (AI) will help with early detection of localised corrosion and prevent loss of plant integrity, he said.
NNPC will work with the institute to deploy the technology to strengthen monitoring of its pipelines to combat crude oil theft, said the group's managing director Mele Kyari.
Earlier, NNPC's chief financial officer, Umar Ajiya, said the company was losing nearly $150 million to vandalism every two days.