At last, the Port Harcourt Refinery Company has finally commenced fuel production after seven postponements.
Following the move, the company has promised a daily supply of about 200 trucks.
About one million litres of refined products were released by the plant on Tuesday.
After the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited NNPCL unveiled the refinery on Tuesday, it said that the old facility, which had a capacity of 60,000 barrels per day, had been revamped and upgraded with modern equipment.
The nation’s oil giant noted that the newly rehabilitated complex of the old Port Harcourt Refinery was currently operating at a refining capacity of 70 per cent of its installed capacity.
However, the NNPCL’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed that the bigger refinery in the Eleme complex that houses the plants, with a 150,000-capacity, had yet to be completed.
He, however, assured that the bigger plant, including the Warri and Kaduna refineries, would later come on stream.
“We will deliver all the other projects. We are not going to give a timeline as he (Tinubu) has directed,” Kyari said while appreciating the president for his support.
During the unveiling of the refinery, NNPC officials conducted stakeholders around the facility where they took samples of petrol, diesel, and kerosene.
The stakeholders who included marketers and the regulators also witnessed the loading of trucks at the gantry.
It was stated that about 200 trucks of petrol would be released into the Nigerian market daily.
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