Please can someone throw more light on this? We have local refineries littered in niger delta and it’s environ. These guys refine crude product with the little knowledge and equipment at their disposal.

Why isn’t the federal government of Nigeria encouraging them? Grant them license and put an end to exporting crude and importing the finished products.

Instead of the foolish dullard to encourage local refinery, he is busy wasting money searching for oil in war ravaged north east.

Buhari is so dumb

I don't know the most useless thing between the Nigerian military and buhari,when the Nigerian military see illegal refineries in the Niger delta they will burn everything, why can't the government give them license to start operating legally.

It's not a most everyone should be rich as dangote before we can operate a refinery

omololu2020:
Instead of the foolish dullard to encourage local refinery, he is busy wasting money searching for oil in war ravaged north east.

Buhari is so dumb

I don't know the most useless thing between the

not only this present administration, both the past. That’s why I wrote “the Nigeria government”. Not Buhari government alone.

Environmental degradation, poor quality of produce and health hazards

yeyerolling:
Environmental degradation, poor quality of produce and health hazards

this Isn’t an excuse, if the federal government is willing to partner with these guys, all these problems you listed will be taken cared of. The billions of dollars spent on subsidy yearly will go a long way in curtailing these problems.

stupidity:
this Isn’t an excuse, if the federal government is willing to partner with these guys, all these problems you listed will be taken cared of. The billions of dollars spent on subsidy yearly will go a long way in curtailing these problems.

how will those ogas in nnpc and those contractors from france chop money from the yearly turn around maintanance of the 4 refineries. Pls be careful . Those guys steal crude oil and refinery, they cannot thrive if its a legit business and they have to buy crude at 50 dollar per barrell

It's not profitable to refine the crude. Also you need to understand it's product of bunckering and the environmental damage outweighs the gain. Refinery can only be profitable at 250000bl/day

stupidity:
not only this present administration, both the past. That’s why I wrote “the Nigeria government”. Not Buhari government alone.

the government of buhari promise us "change" so why has nothing change yet?

The days of Jonathan, yardua and obj are gone, what is buhari presently doing to right the wrong of the past?

omololu2020:
the government of buhari promise us "change" so why has nothing change yet?

The days of Jonathan, yardua and obj are gone, what is buhari presently doing to right the wrong of the past?

lol. That’s another topic for discussion

So you want the south to look like Dubai and the north a desert abi. They prefer the dangote approach.

Local refineries are not the solution to Nigeria's chronic fuel scarcity problem. A local refinery will still have to buy crude at roughly same price as say a refinery in Texas (anything else would amount to a subsidy).

The primary benefit of a local refinery is not having to transport refined fuel from abroad into Nigeria, so a saving on transport costs. However, business costs in Nigeria are high due to poor infrastructure and having to provide your own electricity, water, security, e.t.c. So it's not clear Dangote's refinery, for instance, will solve the problem.

4Play:
Local refineries are not the solution to Nigeria's chronic fuel scarcity problem. A local refinery will still have to buy crude at roughly same price as say a refinery in Texas (anything else would amount to a subsidy).

The primary benefit of a local refinery is not having to transport refined fuel from abroad into Nigeria, so a saving on transport costs. However, business costs in Nigeria are high due to poor infrastructure and having to provide your own electricity, water, security, e.t.c. So it's not clear Dangote's refinery, for instance, will solve the problem.

refinery doesn't run on electricit
Or probably produces it's own electric

The VP moved when baba was away it but our brothers in the north against it.

The politics there is much..

Most of those benefiting from fuel importation are working against every government move to end it.

Just like importers of generators won't want you to have stable electricity so you can buy gen from them.

When the govt. is set I believe we'll end fuel importation and build more refineries

yeyerolling:
Environmental degradation, poor quality of produce and health hazards

@OP you have your answers here for local refineries not being supported.

In Environmemtal engineering, there is something we call "Biodegradation".. shows how the effluents (waste materials) from those refineries go into streams, gets consumed by fishes, pollutes the clean water etc..

These things are very harmful when they get into the human body (from fish you eat and water you drink). Some are even radioactive and can cause acute or chronic illnesses.

Even going by the Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) laws, they are not advisable.

Those local refineries in the ND are thriving due to their structure and informal operating nature

These are the questions we should be preparing for the ones that will be contesting the 2019 elections. They must give us a detailed and clear explanation of why it is doable or not.

Local refineries will not be encouraged because of corruption. They make so much money from the present system.