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Oil marketers target to start lifting Premium Motor Spirit from the 125,000 barrels per day Warri Refinery by February 2025.

This comes as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria confirmed that its members have started lifting automotive gas oil (diesel) and kerosene.

Chairman, Delta State chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Harry Okenini, disclosed this in his remarks on the functionality of the refinery at the weekend.

According to him, the refinery is partly operational.

“For now, only the automotive gas oil, popularly called diesel, and dual-purpose kerosene are being produced and loaded out for consumption.

“Hopefully, by February, we are expecting cooking gas, PMS, and other products to come out.

As of now, the retail unit is only loading AGO and DPK,” he added.

Similarly, the National Chairman of the Surface Tank and Kerosene Peddlers, a branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Israel Omokere, stated that the refinery was in operation.

“Hopefully the PMS will come on board. We are loading kerosene and AGO for now.”

LEADING REPORTERS reports that the development is coming a month after the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery situated in Rivers State.

Addressing the team during the tour of the facility began on Monday, Kyari said, “This plant is running. Although it is not 100 per cent complete, we are still in the process.

“Many people think these things are not real. They think real things are not possible in this country. We want you to see that this is real.”
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, said on Friday the ongoing rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery would be completed by November 2023.

Kyari stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee headed by Ganiyu Johnson in Abuja.

The NNPC chief, who was represented at the meeting by the company’s General Manager in charge of Refineries and Petrochemicals, Mustapha Yakubu, said the rehabilitation work which commenced on May 6, 2021 had attained 30 per cent completion level.

He said while part of the project would be delivered within 32 months, the entire project was expected to be completed within 42 months.

Kyari, who insisted that the contract for the survey of the refineries followed due process, said the contracts for the rehabilitation of Warri and Kaduna Refineries had not been awarded.

A representative of Saipem Engineering Company, who responded to questions from the committee on the project, said an additional sum of £2.3 million was approved for the inspection of both Warri and Kaduna refineries.

The committee, therefore, requested for Federal Executive Council’s approval of $1.5 billion for Port Harcourt refinery, $5.321 million for various expenditures incurred for comprehensive technical plants on July 26, 2017 and another $55 million paid on the same day.

The lawmakers alleged that the contract was awarded to Saipem without due diligence, adding that the contract was not subjected to competitive bidding.

They also directed NNPC management to recourse back to the committee before awarding the contract for the rehabilitation of Warri and Kaduna refineries since the pipelines are in bad shape.

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