The Nations refineries will be fully rehabilitated, that’s according to the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari.
Kyari said Nigeria’s four refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna will commence rehab in January next year.
Rehabilitation or turn around maintenance of the four refineries has gulped several millions of dollars since the resumption of democracy in 1999. Despite the expenditure, however, the refineries failed to operate at optimum capacity.
Mr Kyari, however, suggests that the situation will be different under the leadership of President Mohammadu Buhari.
Mr Kyari, who unfolded the schedule for the refineries’ during a tour of the Port-Harcourt Refining and Petrochemical Company (PHRC) on Saturday 21st September 2019, said the corporation is determined to ensure the refineries achieve optimum refining capacity by 2022.
“We will stick to the schedule. We will deliver this project by 2022. We will commence actual rehabilitation work in January next year.
“We will do everything possible between October and December this year to close out all necessary conditions for us to deliver on the project,” the NNPC spokesperson Ndu Ughamadu quoted the NNPC Boss.
Mr Ughamadu said the NNPC chief believes that with the support from all the shareholders, including the present administration, NNPC staff and contractors, the full rehabilitation of the refineries will be achievable on schedule.
