Few weeks ago President Muhammadu Buhari promised to revamp Nigeria’s moribund refineries and true to his words the 125,000 bpd Warri refinery resumed production this week after maintenance and is expected to run at 60,000 bpd.

The Port Harcourt complex will start ramping up over the next two weeks but only the newer of the two plants at the site is functional and at 90,000 bpd versus its 150,000 bpd capacity.

The last refinery to restart will be the northern Kaduna refinery as it will take about two more weeks to repair the pipeline bringing crude from the oil-rich delta in the south.

Athough there are repairs to be made requiring about $1 billion investment,with the creaky refineries springing back to life, Nigeria aims to produce at least 20 per cent of its petrol needs.

Ian Udoh, the group executive director of refining and petrochemicals, said that he expected to receive six cargoes a month of Nigerian Bonny Light and Escravos crude oil to run 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) or 40 percent, of Nigeria’s total refining capacity.

He expected to produce 8 million litres a day of gasoline, accounting for about 20 percent of Nigeria’s estimated consumption.

During the last eight months, no crude was sent to the refineries, said the company contracted to deliver the oil. A government document also showed that the deliveries stopped last year but a month earlier, in October.

Nigeria has wholly depended on subsidised fuel imports and crude-for-product swap agreements and suffered acute fuel shortages in May.

President Muhammadu Buhari is keen to stop the dependence on fuel import.

The government’s anti-corruption and security services are investigating the intricate structure of oil swaps deals. The crude in those contracts is taken out of the domestic allocation.

NNPC refineries begins local refining of fuel, kerosine | TheCall
http://thecallng.com/2015/07/nnpc-refineries-begins-local-refining-of-fuel-kerosine/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

That's wat we've been expecting

TANOIDS How far nah... Shey una de see werin I de see soo??

barcanista?

That is good
Build more momentum and let's progress

Sai PMB!

Focused and Steady wins the day

Hmm...change is here

A good wine stays in the bottle to be drunk later , if you perform well we will praise you but if you appoint and disappoint we will query you ride on OGA baba go slow

Slow and steady.... (Baba keep it coming)

Pure LIE

The entire plant is down (FCC, Topping n Reforming)

Nothing de happen dere ; just maintenance work

Make dem stop all these deir yeye lie

https://www.nairaland.com/2441367/port-harcourt-refinery-misses-june#35702268


Despite assurances by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited will start refining crude oil by the end of last month, findings have shown that the plant has yet to start delivering on the target.

This is coming as civil society organisations have called on the Federal Government to cut down the volume of crude being supplied to the four refineries based on the fact that the facilities are producing far below the 445,000 barrels, which they get on a daily basis.

It was, however, learnt that the Port Harcourt refinery had started receiving crude oil through boats for commercial processing, but it had yet to commence the production of refined petroleum products.

Our correspondent gathered that the rehabilitation of the plant had reached an advanced stage, but sources explained that the refinery was far from being ready to refine crude.

Mid last month, the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Joseph Dawha, disclosed that the PHRC would start refining crude oil and contribute to petroleum products’ availability by the end of June.

Dawha had said, “Presently, the refineries are undergoing rehabilitation and we are undertaking what we call a new strategy to carry out the turnaround maintenance on them. Basically, what this means is that we are carrying out phased implementation of the rehabilitation of the refineries. We are taking the refineries unit by unit and carrying out turnaround maintenance on them.

“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.”

The NNPC has four refineries, two in Port Harcourt, and one each in Kaduna and Warri. They have combined installed capacity of 445,000 barrels per day. A comprehensive network of pipelines and depots strategically located throughout Nigeria links these refineries.

But sources confirmed to our correspondent that the pipelines were hardly being used to transport crude and refined products to and out of the refineries due to the activities of vandals who regularly rupture the pipelines.

The Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, stated that crude oil was being transported to the Port Harcourt refinery through boats, and noted that the natural resource would get to the facility by the end of this week.

“Crude is being supplied to the Port Harcourt refinery, and you know we are using marine to do the supply. Before the end of the week, they will get crude in Port Harcourt,” he said.

When asked if the refining process would start once the crude oil hit the refinery this weekend, Alegbe replied, “It is a long process. However, once they start production and get the crude, I will let you know.”

Meanwhile, the representative of civil societies on the Board of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives, Mrs. Faith Nwadishi, has argued that the four refineries combined are refining far below the 445,000 barrels of crude being supplied to them daily.

Nwadishi, who is the National Coordinator, Publish-What-You-Pay as well as the CSOs representative on the global EITI board said, “We all know that when the four refineries perform at optimum capacity, they can only produce at 50 per cent. They cannot deliver 100 per cent of the 445,000 barrels per day that they get.

“Now, even if the NNPC decides today that the four refineries will work at 100 per cent capacity, we know that their 100 per cent capacity can refine only 50 per cent of the 445,000 barrels that they get on daily basis.”

She added, “So, what we are saying is that the four refineries put together in Nigeria operate around 20 per cent average and by the time the Port Harcourt refinery is operating at 80 per cent capacity, it can only raise that average to about 25 or 30 per cent. So, the problem still persists.

“Therefore, what we are asking for is that there should be transparency in the turnaround maintenance of our refineries. Why should Nigeria to go to smaller countries like Chad to refine our crude? If we know that the NNPC does not have the capacity to refine 445,000 barrels per day, let us give them exactly what they can refine.”

The Managing Director, Pipelines Product Marketing Company, Mr. Haruna Momoh, had stated last month that the NNPC was importing 50 per cent of the refined petroleum products being consumed in the country.

He explained that when the ongoing rehabilitation and turnaround maintenance of the Port Harcourt refinery was completed, the plant would run at 80 per cent of its installed capacity and produce five million litres of petrol on a daily basis.

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/port-harcourt-refinery-misses-june-target/

wachakuta:

During the last eight months, no crude was sent to the refineries, said the company contracted to deliver the oil. A government document also showed that the deliveries stopped last year but a month earlier, in October.

Nigeria has wholly depended on subsidised fuel imports and crude-for-product swap agreements and suffered acute fuel shortages in May. President Muhammadu Buhari is keen to stop the dependence on fuel import.

The government’s anti-corruption and security services are investigating the intricate structure of oil swaps deals. The crude in those contracts is taken out of the domestic allocation.

http://thecallng.com/2015/07/nnpc-refineries-begins-local-refining-of-fuel-kerosine/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Just in case TANoids missed the part where GEJ and Diezani Maduekwe made sure they starved our refineries of oil so they can continue their scams and brazen looting of our treasury.

President Buhari knows the system so well from his experience as a Petroleum Minister so he cannot be fooled by the antics of saboteurs especially those within the system.

Change is here my people.

Keep lying to your almajiri followers

PMB on point

*modified*

Where is Bastardnista??

Electricitya and refineries now in the 3rd gear unlike the 1st gear they were in the past.

Sai Buhari

betacitizen:
PMB on point

*modified*

Where is Bastardnista??

The protection seeker is collecting some strokes for his lies here:

https://www.nairaland.com/2445458/buhari-50-salary-cut-following/2#35776123

Bad news for taniods and protection seeker, 2 months of Buhari is better than 16 yrs of pdp.

At this point I'd like to acknowledge Bola Tinubu for the role he played in making this change possible, now Nigeria can no longer be mocked and ridiculed by tiny African nations for our inability to refine ANY of our own oil.

God bless President Buhari
God bless B.A.T
God bless the APC
God bless Nigerians.

Op pls educate us how long it takes to complete turn around maintenance in our refineries because d last time I checked PMB govt started in May 29th 2015 and he is yet to appoint ministers that drive vision for d country.

What abt d one they plan for lagos state.

Sai Buhari

atlwireles:
Keep lying to your almajiri followers

But if na Bomb blow or PMB salary reduction now U'll come hia with ur Fake biafra rants... I pray u receive sense dis sunday

Thank God...

The Wailing Wailers however would not like this news.. Even though it is for the good of the nation....

wachakuta:


But if na Bomb blow or PMB salary reduction now U'll come hia with ur Fake biafra rants... I pray u receive sense dis sunday

Almajiri, strap that bomb on yourself, walk into your family room, then gracefully do the needful.

fulanimafia:


The protection seeker is collecting some strokes for his lies here:

https://www.nairaland.com/2445458/buhari-50-salary-cut-following/2#35776123

No wonder I could not see the ass*licking nincompoop on this thread. Thanks for the info.

Let me quickly go and watch his humiliation party

atlwireles:


Almajiri, strap that bomb on yourself, walk into your family room, then gracefully do the needful.

Brain is a free Gift from God..use it pls I know u ve one...!

Baba is working TANoids are wailing.

wachakuta:


Brain is a free Gift from God..use it pls I know u ve one...!

Death is a free gift from your allah, go claim yours