Port Harcourt Refining Company, PHRC, Nigeria’s biggest refinery, has been re-streamed and now producing between three and five million litres daily, according to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

The re-streaming of the refinery, which had been down for months due to poor maintenance and shortage of crude feedstock, the management said, was aimed at optimising available capacity at the plant to alleviate the suffering of Nigerians in accessing petroleum products, particular premium motor spirit (petrol).

NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Garba Muhammad, who confirmed this in a telephone interview with Vanguard yesterday, also said Warri and Kaduna refineries were gearing up for production over the next couple of weeks as, according to him, “we have begun to supply crude to the refineries, but we are waiting to build up crude reserves before we fire them up in the next two weeks or so.”

Meanwhile, the Managing Director, PHRC, Dr Bafred Audu Enjugu, was quoted in a report as saying that the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, FCCU, had been running, while some products from the primary processing units have been blended to generate significant volumes of PMS.

He said the premier refinery would sustain its production and contribute to the nation’s petroleum products pool, which he hopes will reduce the pressure on the nation’s foreign exchange.

In another development, NNPC has urged motorists to desist from panic buying of fuel, saying it had deployed over 200 truckloads of petrol to Abuja and its environs.

The NNPC in a statement by Muhammad, assured that the current petrol shortage would soon be over, noting that the problem had been largely resolved in Lagos, while the queues in Abuja were reducing by the day.

… seals filling stations

Also, the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has vowed to clampdown on petrol stations found hoarding the product and engaging in other sharp practices.

Speaking during a tour of petrol stations in Abuja, DPR’s Director, Petroleum Resources, Mr. Mordecai Ladan, said DPR was stepping up its monitoring activities and would mete out severe sanctions to petrol stations found wanting.

He called on marketers to shun sharp practices and support the efforts of the Federal Government as well as other stakeholders in bringing an end to the fuel crisis.

During the tour, two filling stations were sealed, while the product of another filling station, an NNPC affiliate station, Tempo, was dispensed to motorists for free.

The two stations that were sealed are Zen-Hajad and Kubewas Oil Service, all in Gauraka, Kaduna Road.

Ladan said ZHL was sealed for hoarding and diversion, while Kubewas for abandoning their station on sighting the DPR monitoring team.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/p-harcourt-refinery-producing-5m-litres-daily-nnpc-deploys-200-trucks/

really, make i park first here

Where is my ........ only you can confirm this story.

Let's say they operate on full stream per day for the next two months. Naira will definitely appreciate because bulk of the forex is on refined petroleum products importation. All those other aliexpress is just infinitesimal though we need to put them in check too.

I pray for the day all the refineries will commence full operation and production not on paper o.

Sounds good. PH peeps can you help confirm this?

confirmento

Enough of these ill working refineries . They work for few weeks and short down for months.

Let's wait for another 2 weeks if the refinery no go shut down again. Up NEPA things.

i pray its true

Abeg o!

Lets wait and see


But God bless PMB sha!

Another falacious lie

Well, that is just 5 million liters....which while impressive....is just a tiny part of the 70million liters needed.

And I still pay 100naira against the normal 50naira per drop

I know some citizens will want to sabotage this effort but na all of us go suffer the scarcity when you blow up pipeline cause the president and his fellows know nothing about scarcity

And they said our oil was useless. SS is Nigeria, period!

my neighbor works with the refinery, I'd have asked her but she may not even know

Ahmed0336:
Sounds good. PH peeps can you help confirm this?

Hope they will not send the 200 trucks to the northern part of the country after loading PMS ...?


We are watching .......

jojomario:
Enough of these ill working refineries . They work for few weeks and short down for months.

True talk. These things are obsolete and need complete replacement.

Still being sold at #150 here in Akure o

500mil of water abi?

Before a barrel of oil was selling for $100, and fuel was 87 naira. Now they say the oil is almost useless, so why are we still buying fuel at a higher price now

Pictures or I don't believe it

Hmmmm....nna eeh...just change dis 5mil lites to naira and transfer it to ma acct...nna adon kill catfish be dat

Queeee:
And I still pay 100naira against the normal 50naira per drop

Because we are not producing enough. We need 70million liters a day. 5 million liters from one refinery is not going to make much of a difference.

Way foward

olafum1:
Still being sold at #150 here in Akure o

Because we are not meeting daily demand from all our refineries.

We need 70 million liters a day. Our refineries can only produce 17 million, out of which Port produces 5 million.

That means that we have to import from outside...which is becoming costlier thanks to the depreciation of the naira vs the dollar, and thanks to CBN restrictions on forex(to prevent the naira from depreciating faster than it already is).

So, marketers ignore the DPR, and the official price and sell at high prices...so that they can have enough naira to get the dollars they need to import...and at the same time make a profit, so that they can pay their workers adequately.

Everytime,Stories stories stories

Results,we no dey see

Mtcheeew!

I'm yet to see it here. I've been on dis queue for 3days now

Keystonn:
Hope they will not send the 200 trucks to the northern part of the country after loading PMS ...?


We are watching .......

This doesn't mean I'm not stocking on 50 litres once fuel becomes available again.




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A good start

And some saboteurs will still want to blow up the pipes causing serious economic and social hardship to Nigerians.

I support PMB that they should be dealt with like Boko Haram.