The oil field produces an average of 130,000 barrels per day.
Insiders who did not want to be mentioned said Arik would no longer fly the oil workers to the field after it had been grounded.
The PUNCH reports that trips were abruptly stalled on Tuesday after the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency grounded an aircraft owned by Arik over a court order instituted by the airline’s creditor and billionaire businessman, Arthur Eze.
Eze had approached the court in protest against his unpaid $2.5m by the founder of Arik Air, Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide.
In a statement by the spokesperson of NAMA, Abdullahi Musa, on Tuesday, the agency said the development stemmed from an enforcement action by the FCT High Court on July 19, 2024, which involved attaching Arik’s planes to secure the debt.
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