The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Joseph Dawha today said the
refinery in Port Harcourt will start refining petroleum products by the
end of this month. Dr Dawha made the announcement while inspecting some
petrol stations in Abuja today. He said;
“Presently, the refineries are undergoing rehabilitation
and we are undertaking what we call a new strategy to carry out the turn
around maintenance on them. Basically, what this means is that we are
carrying out phased implementation of rehabilitation of the refineries.
We are taking the refineries unit by unit and carrying out turnaround
maintenance on them. So in other words, if the maintenance are being
carried out on the run and we started a couple of months ago.
Most of the refineries have advanced to a certain stage where they
will be able to operate very soon. For example, the Port Harcourt
refinery, which has reached an advanced stage, will start receiving
crude by end of this month and then of course will start contributing to
the available products in the country.”he said Dr Dawha denied claims
that the oil corporation abandoned the four refineries in Nigeria – 2 in
port harcourt, one in Kaduna and one in Warri “I’ve heard some people
say we have neglected the refineries, no, farther from that. We hope
that at the end of the exercise, these refineries will be fully back
into operation and we will minimise some of the problems we have with
importation. We decided that if the refineries were not in good state to
process crude for maximum gain, then there was no point sending crude
to the refineries. Therefore what you do is to try and fix it so that by
the time you start processing the crude, you will get real value for
the crude you are sending to the refineries.
We are satisfied with the level of work that has been carried out so
far in the Port Harcourt refinery, so that if you start processing crude
now you will get real value.”
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