The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited will have the first right of refusal to supply the Dangote refinery with about 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day for the next 20 years.

The Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari, disclosed this to journalists when he appeared at the 49th Session of the State House Ministerial Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

A supply of 300,000 per day in 20 years brings the total supply to 2.1 trillion by the NNPC.

According to him, the corporation had succeeded in locking down the huge supply as part of the Federal Government’s means of guaranteeing sufficient petroleum products supply for Nigeria.

“We have secured the right to sell up to 300,000 barrels of crude oil to the Dangote refinery for the next 20 years. Not only that, by right, we also have access to 20 per cent production from that plant,” he said.

He alleged that stolen crude oil products were now stored in places of worship such as churches and mosques.

He also noted that various law enforcement agencies had arrested 122 persons involved in pipeline vandalism and oil theft from April to August of 2022.
This was as he justified the government’s recent move to hire private entities to safeguard the network of oil pipelines crisscrossing the country.

Churches, mosques harbouring stolen crude oil products - NNPC
122 culprits in custody for oil theft – NNPC
According to him, the NNPC operatives discovered that stolen petroleum products were stored in places of worship with the consent of the clergy, members and neighbours.

He claimed that in one instance, at least 295 illegal connections were spotted on a 200km stretch of pipeline.

“As you may be aware, because of the very unfortunate acts of vandals along our major pipelines from Atlas Cove all the way to Ibadan, and all others connecting all the 37 depots that we have across the country, none of them can take delivery of products today.

“The reason is very simple. For some of the lines, for instance, from Warri to Benin, we haven’t operated them for 15 years. Every molecule of product that we put gets lost. You remember the sad fire incident close to Sapele that killed so many people. We had to shut it down and as we speak, we have a high level of losses on our product pipeline.

“You remember Lagos, when a fire outbreak happened on one of our pipelines. We discovered that some of the pipelines were actually connected to individuals’ homes. And not only that, with all sensitivity to our religious beliefs, some of the pipelines and some of the products that we found were in churches and mosques,” Kyari said.

He explained that the spate of vandalism had prompted NNPC Limited to shut down its network of pipelines conveying petroleum products across theft-prone areas.

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May God almighty continue to bless Dangote. Out of close to 30 licenses issued, only him and few others were able to give us refineries

Wetin concern buhari with private business?

Below is a list of private companies with a licence to operate a refinery:

S/NO NAME LOCATION STATE
1 Waltersmith Refining & Petrochemical Company Limited Ibigwe Imo
2 OPAC Refineries Umuseti, Kwale Delta
3 Niger Delta Petroleum Resources (Train 3) Ogbele Rivers
4 Dangote Oil Refinery Company Lekki Free Trade Zone Lagos
5 Edo Refinery and Petrochemical Company limited Ikpoba-Okha L.G.A. Edo
6 Lowrie Refinery Limited Ika North LGA Delta
7 Excel Refinery Limited Peretorugbene Community,
Ekeremor L.G.

ABayelsa
8 Conodit Refinery Nigeria Limited Umukwata Delta
9 Duport Midstream Egbokor, Orhionmwon L.G.A. Edo
10 Clairgold Oil & Gas Engineering Limited Koko Delta
11 Ogini Refinery Limited Ogini, Kwale Delta
12 Etopo Energy Plc Burutu Delta
13 Gasoline Associates International Limited Ipokia Ogun
14 NPDC/ND WESTERN OML 34 JV OML 34 field,
Ughelli East,

Ughelli North LGA

Delta
15 Frao Oil Nigeria Limited Uzere Delta
16 Kingdom Global Trading Petroleum & Gas Nig.
Ltd.

Okwagbe, Ughelli
south L.G.A

Delta
17 Resource Petroleum & Petrochemicals International
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Ibeno Akwa Ibom

Biodun556:

Quite encouraging.

Hoping that production starts as soon as possible.

Nigeria will be great again.

QuotaSystem:
Quite encouraging.

Hoping that production starts as soon as possible.

Nigeria will be great again.

Amin.