Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, the surveillance outfit contracted to protect Nigeria’s crude oil pipelines, has unveiled a proprietary technology platform capable of monitoring the country’s entire maritime space in real time and playing back up to two years of activity in its waters.

The application, known as TOCA: Tantita Operations Command and Control Application, was developed in-house by the company and is not commercially available elsewhere, according to Executive Director – Operations and Technical at Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, Capt Warredi Enisuoh

Speaking to Blueprint at the 2026 Nigeria Oil and Gas Week on the capabilities of the platform, Enisuoh said TOCA hosts satellite imagery covering both real-time and historical operations, allowing operators to reconstruct vessel movements within Nigerian waters over a two-year window.

“This application has the capacity of hosting satellite imagery, real-time, post-time, and also hosts two years of activities in the whole of your country or in your waters,” he said.

“If ships entered and left your waters, in two years, we will be able to play back what has happened.”

He said the system also picks up radio frequency signals, extending surveillance beyond the water to onshore movement, including phone and radio use as well as motorcycles operating in the bush.

Enisuoh, however, clarified that Tantita’s technology is designed exclusively for government use and does not serve private clients.

“Our mindset and development capacity are geared towards governments,” he said. “What you find on the site for people to log in, it’s for governments, states.”

According to him, the platform maps offshore oil pipelines and platforms through satellite imaging, and flags any vessel that switches off its Automatic Identification System (AIS) while transiting monitored waters. He said Tantita relies on collaboration with Nigeria’s armed forces to act on such alerts.

“We are only a surveillance firm,” he said. “We have to partner with state actors like the Nigerian Navy, the Nigerian Air Force, Nigerian Army and others to be able to do that particular job.”

Enisuoh explained that the system assigns confidence scores to detected vessels based on signal strength, with operators able to adjust sensitivity to capture smaller craft, including wooden boats.

“By reducing the confidence level, you are increasing the amount of detection, but also capturing smaller boats like even wooden boats to the extent that you can even capture waves,” he said.

The platform also integrates body-worn cameras issued to field staff, feeding live footage back to the command centre and enabling the company to geo-locate personnel deployed along the pipeline network.

“So, in case that staff is in trouble, we can respond. We can go save that staff or call somebody,” Enisuoh said, adding that the tracking also ensures accountability among deployed personnel.

Asked why pipeline vandalism persists despite the surveillance coverage, Enisuoh said Tantita’s mandate is limited to the specific pipeline sections it has been contracted to protect.

“We only look after the lines. We only look after the section we are contracted to look after. We don’t know what other instructions the Navy or any other company may have gotten,” he said.

On the challenges confronting the company, Enisuoh identified the constant emergence of new entrants into pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft as the most persistent threat, noting that it has forced Tantita to continuously upgrade its technology.

“Every day you have new entrants. Every day you have somebody who wants to get rich by dying trying,” he said. “That has also helped us to up our game.”

He credited federal government backing for enabling the company to invest in the technology, describing the development cost as substantial.

Looking ahead, Enisuoh predicted a shift in the nature of oil-sector crime as perpetrators find it increasingly difficult to evade detection, but said Tantita would adapt its focus accordingly.

“Crime doesn’t just disappear. It evolutes. They move from one thing to another,” he said. “Whatever they are going to move next into, we’ll also determine where next at Tantita we’ll go and wait for them.”

He disclosed that last year was dedicated to research, development and quality assurance of the TOCA platform, while this year has been focused on marketing the technology to prospective government clients, including in the Gulf of Guinea region.

“Throughout last year was the development and testing phase,” he said. “This year, we decided to go into marketing, now that we are very, very sure.”

He said several countries, including Equatorial Guinea, have already expressed interest in adopting the platform, as Tantita moves to expand the reach of its surveillance technology beyond Nigeria’s borders.