SOURCE: http://www.ngossip.com/2015/06/port-harcourt-refinery-to-commence.html?m=1


The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Joseph
Dawha today said the refinery in Port Harcourt
will start refining petroleum products by the end
of this month. Dr Dawha made the announcement
while inspecting some petrol stations in Abuja
today. He said;
"Presently, the refineries are undergoing
rehabilitation and we are undertaking what
we call a new strategy to carry out the
turn around maintenance on them.
Basically, what this means is that we are
carrying out phased implementation of
rehabilitation of the refineries. We are
taking the refineries unit by unit and
carrying out turnaround maintenance on
them. So in other words, if 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.”he said Dr Dawha
denied claims that the oil corporation
abandoned the four refineries in Nigeria -
2 in port harcourt, one in Kaduna and one
in Warri “I’ve heard some people say we
have neglected the refineries, no, farther
from that. We hope that at the end of the
exercise, these refineries will be fully back
into operation and we will minimise some of
the problems we have with importation. We
decided that if the refineries were not in
good state to process crude for maximum
gain, then there was no point sending crude
to the refineries. Therefore what you do is
to try and fix it so that by the time you
start processing the crude, you will get
real value for the crude you are sending
to the refineries. We are satisfied with
the level of work that has been carried out
so far in the Port Harcourt refinery, so
that if you start processing crude now you
will get real value."

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