The Particular Adviser on Data and Technique to President Bola Tinubu, Mr Bayo Onanuga, has stated work is at the moment ongoing on the 150,000 barrels per day plant of the Port Harcourt Refining Firm in Rivers State.
PHRC has two crops together with the 60,000bpd facility, and the 150,000bpd plant.
Onanuga additionally stated the 60,000bpd refinery is working at 70 per cent of put in capability and plans to extend manufacturing shortly.
He additional stated the refinery receives common crude oil opposite to claims of missing the product.
He disclosed this after becoming a member of a fact-finding staff on the 60,000 barrels per day refinery on Wednesday.
On Thursday in a submit on X titled “Placing to Relaxation Rumours about Port Harcourt Refinery Advanced: Our Reality-Discovering Mission”, the presidential aide stated the lies and doubts in regards to the refinery had been dismissed by the staff’s fact-finding mission.
He defined that the staff was happy with the state of the refinery.
Onanuga stated, “I used to be a part of a fact-finding staff that visited the 60,000 barrels every day Port Harcourt Refining Advanced on Wednesday. I’ll now share our findings.
“Our staff, guided by the refinery’s Managing Director Ibrahim Onoja, toured all the advanced, from the computerised management room to the loading bay and each part in between. We requested pointed questions and acquired passable solutions, dispelling our doubts and misconceptions.
“Nigerians should ignore naysayers and false details about the refinery’s operations. Whereas it’s not at the moment working at 100 per cent, it’s performing at 70 per cent put in capability, with plans to extend manufacturing shortly.
“Moreover, the refinery receives common crude provides, opposite to claims that it lacks crude to refine.”
He recommended NNPCL for reviving “this lifeless asset,” on the “verge of changing into a museum piece.”
In November, the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted, Olufemi Soneye, introduced the graduation of the Port Harcourt refinery.
NNPCL spokesman stated the refinery commenced operation with 60 per cent capability with ongoing efforts to ramp up manufacturing.
Soneye stated the Refinery is processing 60,000 barrels per day of crude, including that the power has a mixed 210,000 barrels per day capability.
Throughout the go to, Onanuga stated the staff verified that the refinery processes petroleum merchandise, together with kerosene, low-pour gas oil, liquefied petroleum gasoline, diesel, and petrol.
“The latter is mixed with different merchandise to make the petrol we use in our vehicles. We even examined samples of the merchandise,” he stated.
“The refinery’s latest overhaul has remodeled it into a contemporary facility. We noticed upgraded and changed components, together with a part of the 300km new pipelines.
“Some components the corporate had not modified in 27 years have been changed with new ones, bringing the refinery as much as Twenty first-century commonplace.”
The spokesperson stated the revamping work has “certainly introduced the refinery again to life,” including that what was previously a Twentieth-century refinery has been remodeled right into a state-of-the-art facility.
Onanuga stated the staff additionally visited the co-located second Port Harcourt refinery, commissioned in 1989, including that staff had been busy dismantling previous, rusty components and putting in new ones.
“Though officers declined to supply a timeline for its completion, there was an air of confidence that it will quickly be operational, becoming a member of its 60,000 barrels a day counterpart,” the spokesperson stated.
“My curiosity has been happy. I commend NNPC Restricted and the refinery staff for reviving this lifeless asset, which was on the verge of changing into a museum piece.”
Onanuga stated the fact-finding mission “has buried the varied doubts and lies in regards to the Port Harcourt Refinery Advanced”.