The Port Harcourt refinery has introduced the resumption of full operations after briefly cutting down.
This was made recognized by the Managing Director of the refinery, Mr Ibrahim Onoja, whereas addressing journalists after a facility tour of the refinery on Sunday, December 1, 2024, the place he revealed that the power had resumed distribution of merchandise, together with Premium Motor Spirit, kerosene, and diesel.
That is because the controversy surrounding the resumption of operations of the Port Harcourt refinery rages on with some stakeholders expressing doubts over the announcement by the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm (NNPC) Restricted.
The plant is working
Onoja mentioned, ”The refining plant has undergone in depth upgrades to boost effectivity and reliability which had additionally impacted manufacturing capability.
”We changed a lot of the gear together with pump set up and cables.
“The plant is working and we’re trucking out our merchandise.’’
Talking on the event, the Director of Operations of the Nigeria Pipeline Storage Firm (NPSC) Ltd, Mr Moyi Maidunama, acknowledged a brief discount in manufacturing.
He, nevertheless, defined that the discount was to assist tackle some technical points aimed toward enhancing the supply capability of the power.
He mentioned, ”We’re managing the method with the variety of vehicles obtainable right this moment, utilizing three loading arms for evacuation, this might be resolved quickly.
”Our operations weren’t completely halted however decreased as a consequence of a number of the enhancements that we would have liked to make by way of getting extra loading arms operational.
”We’ve got been evacuating refined petroleum merchandise from the refinery since yesterday and it’s clearly going to be a steady course of.’’
Additionally, the terminal supervisor, Mr. Worlu Joel, confirmed the effectivity of the refinery, including that it had begun loading Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), kerosene, and diesel.
He mentioned that the depot which has 11 purposeful loading bays presently makes use of solely 3 as a consequence of its excessive effectivity, including that every of the bay evacuates as a lot as 3 vehicles in quarter-hour.
He, nevertheless, expressed worries over the sluggish turnout of tanker drivers.
He mentioned, ”We’ve got surplus product. Let’s say we’ve got as much as 100 vehicles right this moment, we are going to evacuate them in 5 hours, It’s now not our downside, it’s the tanker drivers.’’
What you must know
Recall that on November 26, 2024, the NNPC introduced that the Port Harcourt refinery had begun manufacturing after a protracted interval of rehabilitation.
It acknowledged that the newly rehabilitated advanced of the previous Port Harcourt refinery, which had been revamped and upgraded with trendy gear, is working at a refining capability of 70% of its put in capability.
- NNPC added that diesel and Pour Gasoline Oil can be the very best output from the refinery, with a day by day capability of 1.5 million litres and a couple of.1 million litres, respectively.
- Nevertheless, a pacesetter of the Alesa group stakeholders, the host group of the refinery, Timothy Mgbere, alleged that the petroleum merchandise loaded from the newly rehabilitated Port-Harcourt Refinery weren’t freshly refined however merchandise left within the storage tank of the power within the final 3 years.
- He additionally alleged that the refinery solely loaded 6 vehicles on Tuesday regardless of stating that 200 vehicles can be picked up from the refinery day by day.
- Additionally, just a few days in the past, there have been experiences that the refinery had stopped operations as there was no exercise on website, with some employees claiming that the refinery was present process calibration which could final until subsequent week.
The Port Harcourt Refining Firm in its clarification mentioned that its operations weren’t utterly halted however scaled right down to facilitate enhancements on the facility.
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