The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Tuesday said that it would take 18 months, beginning from October 2014, to rehabilitate the country’s refineries.

However, between October and Tuesday when the announcement was made, three months have elapsed, leaving about 15 months for the rehabilitation to be concluded.

According to the corporation, the rehabilitation will be in phases. It added 60 per cent of the materials needed for the Turnaround Maintenance of the refineries had been delivered.

The nation has four refineries; two in Port Harcourt and one each in Kaduna and Warri.

The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, said the materials for the TAM were delivered to the Port Harcourt Refining Company and that the installation of the equipment and parts were in progress.

He said the material orders and deliveries to Kaduna and Warri refineries were substantial and sufficient to operate the production process.

“The phased rehabilitation programme started in October of 2014 after the required funding stream was established and will last for 18 months,” the corporation said in a statement.

Most of the refined crude oil products consumed in Nigeria are imported from overseas because the local refineries are performing far below expectation.

Early this month, The PUNCH had reported that the Kaduna and Warri Refining and Petrochemical Companies, with combined capacity of 235,000 barrels per day, produced nothing in September after all the four refineries received an opening stock of 253.26 thousand metric tonnes of crude oil made available for processing.

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/refineries-repairll-be-concluded-in-january-2016-nnpc/

E be like say dem wan tell us weytin we never hear before...

Sometimes I just wonder why Nigeria makes things seems so difficult foe the masses..

Dem nor they repair am finish?
The refinery na heaven e wan reach?
Abeg make all of una stop work first...till after febuhari 14 abeg so dat we go start afresh.

Na today? Abeg jooor. BTW wetin happen to the refineries' oyel allocation for the month den nor refine natin?

Anyways na una sabi

Nigerian govt performing wonders few months to election since ....1999 .

they better speed it up

This is the project I was expecting since the past four years but I'm seeing (3 months ago)something my eyes can't believe .so sorry for mr president ,this little act of negligence have cost you a lot of votes .
This is because your government have maintained this ideology that "no fuel scarcity" but sometimes last year was otherwise of the ideology.

TAM has been consuming our money since the days of OBJ