dayo23:
Bunch of hungry men, surviving on PDP #5000 salary!

Are you speaking from YOUR own experience - is that how much they pay you at the winchious assembly called APC




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Dieazani wrote a letter before leaving office is your defence?

I am giving you concrete evidence that Diezani increased oil swap deals and OPA's by over 80% at the same time refinery repairs were completed and you're telling me about a feather-weight letter she wrote to the EFCC?

**

Frustrated with the impasse, Yakubu, using his approval limit as the NNPC boss, but without the knowledge of Alison-Madueke, started making $2.5 million monthly to the management of the three refineries and encouraged them to revamp the plants with local and external engineers.

Under this arrangement, the refineries were fixed about a year ago and ready to churn out petroleum products, which would have slashed the volume of imported fuel by more than 50 per cent and significantly reduced pressure on the country’s foreign reserves.
In addition, the construction of a power plant for the Port Harcourt refinery was concluded at the beginning of the year to enhance its ability to operate efficiently.

However, instead of ensuring that crude oil was made available to the refineries for domestic consumption, Alison-Madueke, in conjunction with the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), increased the crude oil swaps and OPAs from some 270,000 bpd to 445,000 bpd, thus starving the refineries of crude oil.

The swaps and OPAs were awarded to Aiteo, Ontario Oil & Gas Limited, Sahara Energy, Taleveras Petroleum Trading BV and Swiss firm, Trafigura, among other oil traders.
When contacted on the issue, an aide of the former minister claimed that the reason crude oil was not made available to the plants was because of frequent crude oil theft and vandalism of the pipelines, resulting in losses of up to 30 per cent.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-crude-oil-swaps-opas-stalled-nnpc-refinery-operations/212663/

The fact remains that Jonathan and his cronies sabotaged the operations of the refineries after they were repaired so they could continue their wicked looting.

barcanista:

Then Petroleum Minister(Alison Madueke) In a letter dated May 18, 2015, with the approval of former President Goodluck Jonathan, written to the EFCC requesting that it looked into the Swaps/OPAs "in order to clarify the status of crude oil allocations to the trading firms and the petroleum products that had imported into the country on behalf of NNPC’s product distribution subsidiary – Pipelines & Products Marketing Company"
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oil-traders-nnpc-officials-interrogated-watch-listed-in-major-investigation/211388/

Captainswag225:
u mean he is a party ashawo? Na wa oo

na so we see am o.

Splashme:



The GEJ I know never ever supported subsidy. He had always siezed every opportunity to express his non-support of the subsidy regime and at a number of times attempted to remove it

So, was GEJ benefitting from fuel subsidy and still wanted to remove it?

Will you attempt to 'put sand' in a plate of food you are feeding from since you now want us to beleive he was gaining from the subsidy regime

u are still getting it wrong, nothing like subsidy in d first instance, and why will ur clueless corrupt hero prefer to import than to produce, and d op is indicting gej by this gibberish, if d refinery has be working according to d op, that means Nigeria was short change since 2013

MaziOmenuko:
I maintain that nothing was wrong with our refineries all these while. I was at warri refinery for a minor maintenance work late last year and it was functioning fine, refining oil at 80% capacity.

The truth remains that nnpc was refining our local crude and circulating it as part of imported crude and paying subsidy to themselves. If they refine 2mill litres per day and get N45 per liter as subsidy fee, do the math and discover how much Denziani and co were robbing us of per day!


Thieves!

And lying young men or ignorant men like the OP would be posting falsehood. What is the gain in LIES?. Why is the country becoming such a joke?. The NNPC is also littered with whistle blowers and they are singing to EFCC and Ask Rock like they were singing to APC with secret documents. You only need to talk to insiders. Posting idiotic figures to confuse people!. What was the Name Plate capacities of the refineries. Very refinery degrades with operation that is why they do TAM. If you are using catalysts your need to remove the old one to produce more so degradation in production is very normal before TAM. When a clueless government tells you they met refineries at xxxx litres per day and they increased it to yyyy litres ask them if they expanded the refinery or did TAM, if they did TAM ask them how long it took, how many times they have done it and how much they spent. In fact I will now begin to look at every post from this OP with suspicion he is not to be trusted.

Image123:
It's not about APC or PDP or whatever other party. History and reality are very clear on the fact that the last administration showed a lack of ideas/clues on how to successfully complete a simple turnaround maintenance.

Can you or anyone else tell us how Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo (ret'd) showed plenty of ideas/clues on how to successfully complete a simple turnaround maintenance
Thanks.
We remember how he raised price several times even in the face of recurring scarcity.

The Agbaya of Owu is now the Adviser Plenipotentiary to Brainless Bubu and Navigator Extraordinaire to APC, not so?



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osimataylor:
Don't stress your self Lies and propaganda has become part and parcel of APC.Both at the national and states they control.You can imagine even when GMB had acknowledged the work of GEJ in this regard persons with myopic mindset are still blabing nonsense.when you start your foundation with lies you will continue to lie to cover up your lies.that's life's hack for you.To achieve this they domiciled a lot of their agents on social media platforms.But not all the people are fooled all the time.

TThis propaganda thing will catalyse their fall. Lies can take one to land a job but it can't help him do the job. Their sins shall find them out

Barcanista is an evil Genius who can proof many points just to change ones mind, if he wants to counter this so called thread now, he will do it so perfectly with good points to the extent that you won't know which one to choose... But Mr Evil Genius, we already know the truth, so Please use this your true lies to rebuild your already scattered PDP Ship...

londoner:
OK, so can anyone attributing improved refineries give any policy or direction given under Buhari's presidency?

its because a new sherif is on the block. If Gej had won i bet you nnpc and minister of petroleum wouldnt have allowed refineries to work. They would have posted it foward again becos of selfishness and greed.

eluquenson:
I really miss GEJ the slow poke , under his 6 years administration nothing was working effectively but when my able president started working for just 2 months , many things started working for good.
Thus your epistle has no meaning to us cos it's a stake news

Baba go ahead....PMB is our leader.

beta pikin, abeg meet me for zanga make i declare two bottles for u.

barcanista:
Good Afternoon and Happy Sunday to all. I am so glad to be writing on a very important subject that is generating unnecessary controversy powered by supporters of the ruling party. To cut the story short, this article is to set the record straight and counter the distortion of facts by a pro-APC poster on this thread Jonathan's Government And The Refineries, Lest We Forget.

1. The Situation/Capacity of Our 4 Refineries Before Jonathan:
To appreciate where we are we need to cast our mind where we were. Let's see the refining capacities between of our 4 Refineries between 2001 and 2010.

PORTHARCOURT REFINERIES:
In 2001, it operated at 60.73 percent, 52.17 (2002), 41.88% (2003), 31.04 percent (2004), 42.18 percent (2005), 50.26 percent (2006), 24.87 percent (2007), 17.84 percent (2008), 9.08 percent (2009), and 9.17 percent (2010), averaging 34 percent in ten years.

***Jonathan Inherited PHCR at 9.17% capacity***

KADUNA REFINERY:
Kaduna refinery operated at 31.39 percent capacity utilisation in 2001, 34.95 percent (2002), 15.96 percent (2003), 26 percent (2004), 33.08 percent
(2005), 8.34 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 19.56 percent (2008); 20.02 percent (2009), and 20.46 percent (2010). On average, in the ten years, the
Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical complex attained capacity utilisation of 20.97 percent.

***Jonathan Inherited KDRPC at 20.46% capacity***

WARRI REFINERY (WARPC)
Warri refinery operated at 48.29 percent in 2001, 55.53 percent (2002), 14.27 percent (2003), 9.10 percent (2004), 54.85 percent (2005), 3.85 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 38.52 percent (2008), 43.01 percent (2009), and 43.36 percent (2010), averaging 31 percent between 2001 and 2010.

***Jonathan Inherited WARPC at 43.36% capacity***
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-case-for-increasing-refining-capacity/105378/

Nigeria's Refining Capacity During GEJ Era:
May 2013: Portharcourt Refinery (66%)Kaduna Refinery (65%), and Warri (63%)
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Thursday, announced an improvement in Nigeria’s refining capacity, declaring that domestic refining of Premium Motor Spirits, PMS, at the country’s three refineries has increased to 10.23 million litres per day.

He disclosed that the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company is currently running at 65 percent installed capacity, while the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company is producing at 63 per cent and the Port Harcourt Refining and Petrochemical Company at 66 per cent of installed capacity.

“Infact, these refineries have been running consistently for over three months now.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/nigerias-refineries-now-producing-10m-litresday-of-fuel-nnpc/

Before that statement was made, the then Minister of Petroleum Mrs Alison Madueke had stated in March that early turn around maintenance was already ongoing while the MAIN TAM that was expected to yield the 90% projected capacity was expected to commence later that year.

"Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in April and may of this year. The TAM and rehabilitation work for Kaduna and Warri refineries are intended to follow in quarter four of this year and quarter one of next year respectively,”

“Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in April and may of this year.
www.sunnewsonline.com/new/tam-fg-begins-work-on-port-harcourt-refinery-next-month/

Nobody or Group disputed the position of the NNPC. So who was responsible for the improvement to 64% working capacity of our combined refineries in May 2013? JONATHAN of course

October 2014: Turn Around Maintenance Began For The Optiman Performace of Our Refineries (80%):
While the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries were built by two Japanese firms - Chioda and JGC, the Warri Refinery was built by Snapcogetti of Italy.

According to The Coordinator, Corporate Planning and Strategy, of the NNPC, Dr. Tim Okon when SAIPEM eventually came, it offered to maintain Port Harcourt Refineries at $550 million, Kaduna Refineries at $600 million and Warri Refinery at $180 million.

Okon said the bills were unacceptable to them because they were too high despite the fact that the figures were eventually reviewed downwards. He said the high bills prompted NNPC to send some of their engineers to the builders abroad to learn the repair processes with a view to saving costs.

Following this move, Okon said NNPC began to spend as low as N10 million to maintain the refineries every month as from October 2014. Following this
development, he said the four refineries would roar back to life and produce in optimum capacity from the first quarter of 2016.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/exxonmobil-ceo-crude-oil-prices-to-remain-low/203419/

***The Testimony/revelation was made on March 05, 2015***

The Transformational Result By GEJ's Effort
On the 10th of June, the GMD NNPC came out to make the following statements..

“We are taking the refineries unit by unit and carrying out turnaround maintenance on them. So in other words, 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.”
www.punchng.com/news/pharcourt-refinery-to-commence-operations-in-july-nnpc-gmd/

I hope this is satisfactory enough? I hope the APC fans will emulate Buhari by giving credit to whom it is due?

God Bless Barcanista. No matter what the children of hate, deceit and propaganda do, Jonathan's legacy lives on.

Donjowebs:
OP and et al una like argument sha, anyway all u said only gives credence to what a lot of Nigerians saw during GEJ's tenure i.e massive corruption that leaves you shocked and doubting your faith. Let's stop this back and forth and join hands in supporting PMB to move Nigeria forward, Nigeria belongs to Nigerians and PMB,GEJ,APC or PDP. May God continue to bless and raise our country!

the thing is what do you know about PMB plans and economic focus on "increasing the gains of last administration"

senier007:
That's what I like about this our country, we always appreciate our past with nostalgia as if the best has already left us, GEJ has not done anything tangible about NNPC it was Yar 'Adu'as idea, during that regime, I could remember that, a Committee was set up to restructure and put the NNPC on the right course, that Committee was headed by Rilwan Lukman, it was that Commitee that proposes the establishment of NNPC filling station in all the LGAs of the country, Yar Adua single-handedly stop the selling of NNPC then to dangote, I could still remember then the disappearance of long line in most filling stations were credited to GEJ but. Never Yar Adua, so why is it now difficult to credit the sudden resurgence of EFCC and NNPC to the govt of the day? When it is obvious that last govtt was nothing more than a charade and celebration of corruption? Paradox and contradiction has taken over the official Explanation given by. Either the. Minister, presidency or NNPC workers? Who is in charge here? Wailers will continue wailing till PDP change it name to GEJ!! Cuz it obvious there is PDP and GEJ! In achebe's words " then there was a party called PDP"

What has EFCC achieved so far ?
Any loot recovery or conviction ?

It is high time that we stopped celebrating mediocrity instead of results.
Anyone can invite or interrogate it means nothing , just a desperate boss trying
to keep his job.

Also note that many of the cases of ex-governors can't have been prosecuted
because of immunity so it is only natural to see a spike in EFCC's activity after
a loss of immunity.

san316:
Nothing, absolutely nothing makes any sense in what the wailer in chief just wrote there. You only confirmed what image123 argued that based on what GEJ and his cothieves did, we can only expect d refineries to work in 2016. hello this is 3rd qtr of 2015. so what happened.

i can still recall a report in which an official claimed that Diezani deliberately thwarted the growth of the refineries by starving them of ctude oil such that the MD had to start doing TAM without the knowledge of the president n d minister.

on the long run, the Wailer in Chief has succeeded in saying nothing thus, has not been able to successfully counter the arguments of image123.

this is my final verdict. casre dismissed.

Ode leleyi sha.....is the TAM not been done units by units ni? When they finish by the stipulated time which is 2016 it ll be giving 90% output......is it that english is hard for you to understand ni abi u have sworn to be dull

LRNZH:
This gibberish does not counter the excellent write-up by image123 earlier today. --> https://www.nairaland.com/2495746/jonathans-government-refineries-lest-forget

I spoke with a PENGASSAN official with NNPC.
His short answer is that the then Minister of Petroleum sabotaged all efforts to restart the refineries due to her shady crude swap deals and petroleum importation interests.

In fact some of the repair work were quietly being undertaken right under her nose but without her knowledge. Mind you the PENGASSAN confidante of mine is of SS origin.

GEJ's oversight of the Petroleum Ministry and indeed any other sector of Nigeria's public life was absent hence the impunity and high level of corrupt practices under his govt.

The OP's reputation as an analyst is with the dogs judging from this gibberish of a write-up.

Thank God Nigerians chose Change and PMB.

Don't mind the Chief Wailer.

At the end of the day, the refineries, electricity, EFCC, etc there were in comatose under GEJ started working under PMB. QED.

How is it our fault that the Clueless One looked on while our economy was being grounded under his nose.

They're bunch of sore losers.

Jesusloveyou:
u are still getting it wrong, nothing like subsidy in d first instance

I see that you are also of the same mind as Buhari who nevertheless CONTINUES to pay the subsidies he says do not exist, abi
How do you define a MUMU?




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Oil Swap Fraud: Aiteo, Alleged Front For GEJ & Diezani, In Buhari’s Cross-hairs

As Nigeria's new President­-elect Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) party ready for power, state Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) officials, oil traders and upstream players alike are bracing for a raft of investigations into deals approved by outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan's regime. As corruption is endemic across much of Nigeria's oil sector, such probes have featured with every incoming government for decades with new presidents and lawmakers using the findings to threaten and control opponents, shake down oil companies for more cash, terminate contracts and award new ones to allies.

Buhari could dig deeper and hold more alleged perpetrators to account than his predecessors, partly because he has staked his credentials on fighting corruption, and because a major power shift is under way. Corruption became a huge issue under Jonathan, with sizeable volumes of crude allegedly squandered through offshore processing agreements (OPAs), under which traders lift crude and deliver oil products and cash back to NNPC, as well as through strategic alliance agreements (SAAs) that paid companies in crude for helping NNPC to operate upstream assets divested by Royal Dutch Shell. The government eventually commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to audit NNPC's finances in 2014 but declined to release the full report (EC Mar.28'14).

Buhari is treading carefully, starting on his own doorstep by disputing his own supporters' demands for contracts to satisfy their sponsors, sources tell Energy Compass. To manage such intense pressures, some expect Buhari to keep the oil portfolio himself and appoint a minister of state for petroleum as did former President Olusegun Obasanjo (2000­07) ­­ a move that streamlined rather than eradicated such activity. Significantly, though, APC policy director Kayode Fayemi yesterday promised to publish PwC's audit in full.

The president-­elect will need a light touch in Jonathan's home, the Niger Delta, where his People's Democratic Party retains control of all states after flawed governor elections on Apr. 11 (EC Apr.17'15). Powerful former militants are conciliatory but could stir up trouble if Buhari cancels their lucrative pipeline and maritime security contracts secured through the 2010­15 amnesty agreement and ties to Jonathan. Former gang leader Ateke Tom took out a full-­page advertisement congratulating Buhari. Less predictable are militants excluded from the amnesty, who are now flexing muscles to secure contracts.

A compromise to tackle corruption without ruffling Niger Delta feathers could be in the making, under which most of the corruption gets blamed on unpopular outgoing Oil Minister Diezani Alison­Madueke, allowing Jonathan to retain the statesmanlike image he acquired on ceding power to Buhari (EC Apr.3'15). A narrative is emerging that the minister helped herself to funds raised for his election campaigns and recycled it with help from business allies. "Goodluck was kept in the dark ... without real influence over oil sector decisions," one trader said. The minister will struggle to counter this version of history, as numerous fallouts have left her with few allies, sources say.

Companies deemed close to the minister that could face further scrutiny include Nigerian trader Aiteo, which has been criticized for unfairly exploiting its OPAs, and Atlantic Energy, which has allegedly lifted crude beyond its entitlements from the upstream SAAs.

Continue: http://saharareporters.com/2015/04/28/oil-swap-fraud-aiteo-alleged-front-gej-diezani-buhari%E2%80%99s-cross-hairs

Try to be a good citizen, love your leaders and always give them support One Nigeria is for all no need to fix credit to a perticular individual, because, the are meant to serve Nigeria. If the fail the failed no group but rather the entire state the are serving. Dont forget, We are all meant to serve "theee Nation" not one particular group or get credit from any individual. #thestatefirst

marv1:
its because a new sherif is on the block. If Gej had won i bet you nnpc and minister of petroleum wouldnt have allowed refineries to work. They would have posted it foward again becos of selfishness and greed.

The posting forward that we witnessed severally between 2011 and 2015.

Wailers, una never start.

barcanista:
Good Afternoon and Happy Sunday to all. I am so glad to be writing on a very important subject that is generating unnecessary controversy powered by supporters of the ruling party. To cut the story short, this article is to set the record straight and counter the distortion of facts by a pro-APC poster on this thread Jonathan's Government And The Refineries, Lest We Forget.

1. The Situation/Capacity of Our 4 Refineries Before Jonathan:
To appreciate where we are we need to cast our mind where we were. Let's see the refining capacities between of our 4 Refineries between 2001 and 2010.

PORTHARCOURT REFINERIES:
In 2001, it operated at 60.73 percent, 52.17 (2002), 41.88% (2003), 31.04 percent (2004), 42.18 percent (2005), 50.26 percent (2006), 24.87 percent (2007), 17.84 percent (2008), 9.08 percent (2009), and 9.17 percent (2010), averaging 34 percent in ten years.

***Jonathan Inherited PHCR at 9.17% capacity***

KADUNA REFINERY:
Kaduna refinery operated at 31.39 percent capacity utilisation in 2001, 34.95 percent (2002), 15.96 percent (2003), 26 percent (2004), 33.08 percent
(2005), 8.34 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 19.56 percent (2008); 20.02 percent (2009), and 20.46 percent (2010). On average, in the ten years, the
Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical complex attained capacity utilisation of 20.97 percent.

***Jonathan Inherited KDRPC at 20.46% capacity***

WARRI REFINERY (WARPC)
Warri refinery operated at 48.29 percent in 2001, 55.53 percent (2002), 14.27 percent (2003), 9.10 percent (2004), 54.85 percent (2005), 3.85 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 38.52 percent (2008), 43.01 percent (2009), and 43.36 percent (2010), averaging 31 percent between 2001 and 2010.

***Jonathan Inherited WARPC at 43.36% capacity***
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-case-for-increasing-refining-capacity/105378/

Nigeria's Refining Capacity During GEJ Era:
May 2013: Portharcourt Refinery (66%)Kaduna Refinery (65%), and Warri (63%)
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Thursday, announced an improvement in Nigeria’s refining capacity, declaring that domestic refining of Premium Motor Spirits, PMS, at the country’s three refineries has increased to 10.23 million litres per day.

He disclosed that the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company is currently running at 65 percent installed capacity, while the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company is producing at 63 per cent and the Port Harcourt Refining and Petrochemical Company at 66 per cent of installed capacity.

“Infact, these refineries have been running consistently for over three months now.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/nigerias-refineries-now-producing-10m-litresday-of-fuel-nnpc/

Before that statement was made, the then Minister of Petroleum Mrs Alison Madueke had stated in March that early turn around maintenance was already ongoing while the MAIN TAM that was expected to yield the 90% projected capacity was expected to commence later that year.

"Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in April and may of this year. The TAM and rehabilitation work for Kaduna and Warri refineries are intended to follow in quarter four of this year and quarter one of next year respectively,”

“Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in April and may of this year.
www.sunnewsonline.com/new/tam-fg-begins-work-on-port-harcourt-refinery-next-month/

Nobody or Group disputed the position of the NNPC. So who was responsible for the improvement to 64% working capacity of our combined refineries in May 2013? JONATHAN of course

October 2014: Turn Around Maintenance Began For The Optiman Performace of Our Refineries (80%):
While the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries were built by two Japanese firms - Chioda and JGC, the Warri Refinery was built by Snapcogetti of Italy.

According to The Coordinator, Corporate Planning and Strategy, of the NNPC, Dr. Tim Okon when SAIPEM eventually came, it offered to maintain Port Harcourt Refineries at $550 million, Kaduna Refineries at $600 million and Warri Refinery at $180 million.

Okon said the bills were unacceptable to them because they were too high despite the fact that the figures were eventually reviewed downwards. He said the high bills prompted NNPC to send some of their engineers to the builders abroad to learn the repair processes with a view to saving costs.

Following this move, Okon said NNPC began to spend as low as N10 million to maintain the refineries every month as from October 2014. Following this
development, he said the four refineries would roar back to life and produce in optimum capacity from the first quarter of 2016.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/exxonmobil-ceo-crude-oil-prices-to-remain-low/203419/

***The Testimony/revelation was made on March 05, 2015***

The Transformational Result By GEJ's Effort
On the 10th of June, the GMD NNPC came out to make the following statements..

“We are taking the refineries unit by unit and carrying out turnaround maintenance on them. So in other words, 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.”
www.punchng.com/news/pharcourt-refinery-to-commence-operations-in-july-nnpc-gmd/

I hope this is satisfactory enough? I hope the APC fans will emulate Buhari by giving credit to whom it is due?

Who is this mad man? IF GEJ HAD THIS UR RECORD, WHY DID HE SAY IT WILL TAKE LIKE 6 YEARS TO FIX REFINERIES? THIS MAD MAN CALLED BARCANISTA SHOULD STOP BRAINWASHING SOME FOLKS HERE.

so the refinery was in good shape but kept redundant for 16 years? If this is what you mean that is pure wickedness from your hero.

francizy:


I find it rather amusing when the likes of midolian and passingshot make kiddish statements like: the fear of Buhari revived the power sectors and fixed the refineries. Where has it ever been heard that the fear of someone built something? I find that statement rather uncalled for as these two peeps including others who supported their statements may be well over 30..

By the way, Buhari is presently riding on the goodwill of our economic destroyers and thus enjoying GEJ's layed down foundation. If he ever steps foot in a direction contrary to what his owners want, they will crumble his government within a twinkle of an eye..

francizy, u mumu no be small o! The problem with our oil and power sector is nothing but corruption as we all know...During GeJ's regime, I am sure u remember these words of the NNPC

"We examined the work scope and picked up the essential things that we must do to get these refineries to operate optimally at around 90 per cent of capacity. That was done and we did the pricing template; not the international rates, we used the local rates. And everything for the three refineries combined came to around $550m, which is significant, maybe up to 70 per cent reduction."

“Even the $550m is quite much. So, we amortised it over 18 months so that we will be able to swallow it in bits more easily. The 18 months started since last October and this means that early next year, the refineries should be in shape."

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/nigerian-engineers-to-repair-refineries-for-n99bn-nnpc/ this was in Feb. 2015..
Now, can u explain what happened overnight?

Power sector?;,,If u claim GEJ revived the power sector, why didn't it work under GEJ? You see, the problem with our power sector is nothing but corruption. The problem with our power sector was the corruption in the transmission sector that was left unchecked. Buh since Buhari came into power, things have changed. No one wants to be the scape-goat. So they had better fixed it b4 Buhari gets to know this...And this is our reason for saying, "its the fear of Buhari".

Just as a friend rightly said, Generation isn't really the problem but transmission and distribution.

gej is a failure.... deal with that

Demmocrats:
I agree with op but why during his time Nigeria importation of refined crude was so high and the corruption rate in that sector was so high which involved more than $20 billions stolen

He will ignore that. That was not part of his job.

You claim all the statistics and data yet we pay the highest amount for subsidy in history.


We imported the highest amount of refined product than we did when it was working 10%.


Arguing with politicians is a waste of time. They will think about their stomach before putting any argument forward.

Some folks claimed Power is Jonathan's making. And Nigeria was paralyzed before he handed over. No fuel no power.

Even GEJ will be surprised reading the thrash he posted.

was it working under GEJ?? NO.. Is it working under PMB?? YES... That's what d common man on d street cares about...all what u r posting is nonsense to d masses..Resullts Results is what they want.

Nollywood needs to make a movie titled; BARCANISTA, GRACE TO GRASS! The Movie

Coming soon on Nairaland Cinemas!!

And the APC bastards will still attribute it to Boo.hari. Nice one, Barcanista

Dear Commander-in-Cheif of the Wailing Forces of Wailers Nation.

All what you wrote are exuces. The clients of GEJ want results not excuses.

Please when you give out a contract and it's supposed to be delivered in a 2015 and u keep hearing 2016, no 2018, July 2020. Will you continue or sack.

eluquenson:
I really miss GEJ the slow poke , under his 6 years administration nothing was working effectively but when my able president started working for just 2 months , many things started working for good.
Thus your epistle has no meaning to us cos it's a stake news

Baba go ahead....PMB is our leader.

::--Old tune from the wailing wailer who is yet to fathom his loss. They wanted to sell refineries to themselves using foreign and local fat goons. Thank God they were sent packing. Barawo bansa...

barcanista:
Good Afternoon and Happy Sunday to all. I am so glad to be writing on a very important subject that is generating unnecessary controversy powered by supporters of the ruling party. To cut the story short, this article is to set the record straight and counter the distortion of facts by a pro-APC poster on this thread Jonathan's Government And The Refineries, Lest We Forget.

1. The Situation/Capacity of Our 4 Refineries Before Jonathan:
To appreciate where we are we need to cast our mind where we were. Let's see the refining capacities between of our 4 Refineries between 2001 and 2010.

PORTHARCOURT REFINERIES:
In 2001, it operated at 60.73 percent, 52.17 (2002), 41.88% (2003), 31.04 percent (2004), 42.18 percent (2005), 50.26 percent (2006), 24.87 percent (2007), 17.84 percent (2008), 9.08 percent (2009), and 9.17 percent (2010), averaging 34 percent in ten years.

***Jonathan Inherited PHCR at 9.17% capacity***

KADUNA REFINERY:
Kaduna refinery operated at 31.39 percent capacity utilisation in 2001, 34.95 percent (2002), 15.96 percent (2003), 26 percent (2004), 33.08 percent
(2005), 8.34 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 19.56 percent (2008); 20.02 percent (2009), and 20.46 percent (2010). On average, in the ten years, the
Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical complex attained capacity utilisation of 20.97 percent.

***Jonathan Inherited KDRPC at 20.46% capacity***

WARRI REFINERY (WARPC)
Warri refinery operated at 48.29 percent in 2001, 55.53 percent (2002), 14.27 percent (2003), 9.10 percent (2004), 54.85 percent (2005), 3.85 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 38.52 percent (2008), 43.01 percent (2009), and 43.36 percent (2010), averaging 31 percent between 2001 and 2010.

***Jonathan Inherited WARPC at 43.36% capacity***
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-case-for-increasing-refining-capacity/105378/

Nigeria's Refining Capacity During GEJ Era:
May 2013: Portharcourt Refinery (66%)Kaduna Refinery (65%), and Warri (63%)
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Thursday, announced an improvement in Nigeria’s refining capacity, declaring that domestic refining of Premium Motor Spirits, PMS, at the country’s three refineries has increased to 10.23 million litres per day.

He disclosed that the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company is currently running at 65 percent installed capacity, while the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company is producing at 63 per cent and the Port Harcourt Refining and Petrochemical Company at 66 per cent of installed capacity.

“Infact, these refineries have been running consistently for over three months now.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/nigerias-refineries-now-producing-10m-litresday-of-fuel-nnpc/

Before that statement was made, the then Minister of Petroleum Mrs Alison Madueke had stated in March that early turn around maintenance was already ongoing while the MAIN TAM that was expected to yield the 90% projected capacity was expected to commence later that year.

"Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in April and may of this year. The TAM and rehabilitation work for Kaduna and Warri refineries are intended to follow in quarter four of this year and quarter one of next year respectively,”

“Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in April and may of this year.
www.sunnewsonline.com/new/tam-fg-begins-work-on-port-harcourt-refinery-next-month/

Nobody or Group disputed the position of the NNPC. So who was responsible for the improvement to 64% working capacity of our combined refineries in May 2013? JONATHAN of course

October 2014: Turn Around Maintenance Began For The Optiman Performace of Our Refineries (80%):
While the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries were built by two Japanese firms - Chioda and JGC, the Warri Refinery was built by Snapcogetti of Italy.

According to The Coordinator, Corporate Planning and Strategy, of the NNPC, Dr. Tim Okon when SAIPEM eventually came, it offered to maintain Port Harcourt Refineries at $550 million, Kaduna Refineries at $600 million and Warri Refinery at $180 million.

Okon said the bills were unacceptable to them because they were too high despite the fact that the figures were eventually reviewed downwards. He said the high bills prompted NNPC to send some of their engineers to the builders abroad to learn the repair processes with a view to saving costs.

Following this move, Okon said NNPC began to spend as low as N10 million to maintain the refineries every month as from October 2014. Following this
development, he said the four refineries would roar back to life and produce in optimum capacity from the first quarter of 2016.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/exxonmobil-ceo-crude-oil-prices-to-remain-low/203419/

***The Testimony/revelation was made on March 05, 2015***

The Transformational Result By GEJ's Effort
On the 10th of June, the GMD NNPC came out to make the following statements..

“We are taking the refineries unit by unit and carrying out turnaround maintenance on them. So in other words, 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.”
www.punchng.com/news/pharcourt-refinery-to-commence-operations-in-july-nnpc-gmd/

I hope this is satisfactory enough? I hope the APC fans will emulate Buhari by giving credit to whom it is due?

Hey barca!
As usual, concise and factual.
Tell the wanking masturbators.
A carton of origin for you.

As the refineries in portharcort,Kaduna and warri are now working in full capacity under this northern president, why are we still experiencing scarcity of fuel and high fuel prices?

administration nothing was working effectively but when my able president started working for just 2 months , many things started working for good.
Thus your epistle has no meaning to us cos it's a stake news

Baba go ahead....PMB is our leader.
Stop playing politics with truth, if you are a youth and you are doing this, I pity you, these people have no interest of us at heart, pmb is b ad leader. Very soon you will find out. Wake up youths.