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 GEJ our hero.
The most humble President that Nigeria ever produced.

Barcanister!
You wan be OP, come be FTC join? Shioor!!

I'm more interested in beating INTROVERT in her (?) game!

Setting The Record On The Proposed Refineries Privatisation By GEJ's Administration.
I believe it will be great that I also addressed this issue.

On the 8th of February 2012, the FG inaugurated a National Refineries Special Task Force. The task force was to ensure self sufficiency of petroleum products in the country under a strong framework in the shortest possible time. Memebers of the Task Force are Kalu Idika Kalu (Chairman), Mallam Yusuf Alli (Alternate Chairman); Prof. Ayo Ogunye; Mr. Imo Itsueli; Mr. M. B. Shehu, Mr. Olumuyiwa Ajibola and Dr. N. J. D. Erinne. Others are Mr. Alex Ogedengbe; Mallam Bello Maccido; Mr. Emeka Ene; Mr. Stanley Lawson; Mr. Akin Kekere-Ekun; Mrs. Fatima Wali-Abdulrahman; Mallam Abba Dabo; Mr. Harcourt Adukeh; Mrs. Mayen Adetiba; Mr. Babatunde Ogun and Mr. Achese Igwe.
The Task Force was also called "Idika Kalu Task Force".
www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/idika-kalu-heads-refineries-task-force/

In late November 2012, the Task Force Submitted their report where it tasked FG to SALE ALL 4 Refineries. Because lots of money has been spent by successive governments in the name of TAM without yielding result. See Excerpt...

While the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, awarded a major contract valued at $215 million in 1997 for Kaduna refinery alone, the Abdulsalami Abubakar administration in 1998 set aside $92million for the refineries without achieving any result. During President Olusegun Obasanjo’s first term (1999 – 2003), it was estimated that between $254million and $400.4million was wasted on the rehabilitation of the refineries and pipelines. In 2007, the TAM contract for Kaduna alone cost about $24 million in cash and materials worth $30 million, bringing the total to about $54 million. The record is shockingly awful.

www.punchng.com/editorials/jonathan-sell-the-refineries-now/

In December 13, 2013 the FG constutited a steering committee to look into the privatisation process(in line with the Idika Kalu's Committee recommendation). According to the DG Bureau for Public Enterprises, Benjamin Dikki,

“The President has also approved the constitution of a steering committee on the privatisation process that involves all relevant stakeholder ministries and agencies.

The Steering Committee’s terms of reference would be to, among other things, advise the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) on the best way to privatise the refineries in a manner that would enhance the gains of the privatization programme of the Federal Government; review the diagnostic reports and recommendations of the transaction advisors and make recommendations to the NCP, propose modalities and make recommendations to NCP on labour matters to ensure the successful privatization of the refineries."
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/president-approves-privatisation-of-four-refineries/167056/

On December 18, 2013, the Labour spat fire threatened War because they were erroneously made to believe that the FG has approved "Sale of refinery"

“Our message is very clear; if between now and December 24, 2013, the government fails to cancel the planned privatisation of the refineries, we will wait for the Yuletide period to come and then mobilise between that time and the first week in January 2014; the entire oil and gas workers in Nigeria will go on a total strike and shut down the economy.”
www.businessnews.com.ng/2013/12/18/oil-workers-threatens-nationwide-strike-january-1/

On January 03, 2014 the FG came out to set the record straight that it hasn't authorised ANYONE to sale the refinery. According to spokesman Ruben Abati

“The Federal Government will not sell the refineries. There is no authorisation for anybody to do so; there is no presidential endorsement. Even the minister does not have the powers to sell government’s property,”
www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-hasnt-approved-sale-of-refineries-says-abati/

While the author of that thread made it look like the FG was thorn between privatisation and TAM, the truth is that the GEJ led FG was keen on mthe TAM (as explained above) and also working out modalities that will be acceptable to all stakeholders (including labout) with respect to refinery privatisation by setting up the Steering Committee to yield a permanent solution. Was this not commendable?

I want to enjoin Nigerrians to be very wary of reports from APC. We can't distort facts for politics. The records are there. GEJ inherited a dilapidated refineries and put it on the right path. Let us give honor to whom it is due.


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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

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.
This your epistle has no meaning to us cos it's a stale news

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

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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.

Cc: Lalasticlala Ishilove Seun Obinoscopy





Whynotthetruth Phockphockman

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InvertedHammer:
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Everything was in order under GEJ.

But his minions made sure those things didn't work to create avenues for allocations which they subsequently.embezzled.

Right up there is the typical depraved mindset of an APC maggot . . . . . Am not remotely surprised

https://www.nairaland.com/2496565/power-supply-almost-constant-area/4#36528939

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The people trying so hard to give PMB credit for GEJ policies are NOT doing him any favors. All buhari will end up doing is to sit back and relax and just take credit for the works of last administration.

Investors are still uncertain about what direction he plans to take the ongoing reforms started by the last administration and this is affecting FDI and the stock market. I am waiting to see the quality ministers he appoints. That will give me a good indication what the next 4 years would be like.

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"

Barcanista, I must admit you are someone I respect.
Please keep it up!

Jonathan a failure and corruptus chief . .. Gej repeatedly wasted money on some allege turn around maintenance but each time he TAMed the refining capacity fell lower.

The question is why are Sai Buharists keen on re-writing history when Buhari has conceded credit to Jonathan (he had no choice though)



"I cannot take credit for the revival of the refineries because I have no input to it, if I say I had a hand in it, it will be a lie and I cannot tell lies." (President Muhammadu Buhari)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttD5Tr-c9fQ

I pity the children of hate trying by all means to glorify the "BABA GO SLOW"

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. no mind d yeye fool slways seeking attention

AroOkigbo:
God bless GEJ our hero.
The most humble President that Nigeria ever produced.

Barcanister!
You wan be OP, come be FTC join? Shioor!!

I'm more interested in beating INTROVERT in her (?) game!

Get a life, GMB has won and this nation is moving ahead to greater prosperity and development.

With all the evidence out there on different national newspapers on the corruption of your GEJ and information from neighbouring and western countries it boggles my mind how you can still defend and praise the undefendable.

chiboyo:
Barcanista, I must admit you are someone I respect.
Please keep it up!

it's a pleasure brother... We won't fold arms and watch them distort history with their propaganda.

if u know ur history,u will know where u are coming from-bob marley.

APC and their wicked gang keep telling us not to judge buhari cos its too early,but they dont see it as bin too early to attribute GEJ's successes to buhari.its a pity that nigerians no longer judge with their mind,rather they judge sentimentally.even buhari himself who we all know is a great liar openly said that he cant attribute the successes in the petroleum sector to himself,yet his hateful fans are forcefully attributing the success to the man.

God bless GEJ




See my signature too

These waillers and their trailer load of propaganda sha.

If APC continue in this babaric acts of glorification, I fear for the 1001 campaign promises...

Obinoscopy pls do something ooooo


Lalasticlala Ishilove FP pls

@ Barcanista, kudos!

You have our support and blessing to always put the children of anger and hate to full tutorial...

How can Nigeria experience the TRUE Change in the atmosphere of media lies, caricature and propaganda ?

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Gej my nigga

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