NNPC reopens Port Harcourt refinery

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reopened the Port Harcourt refinery, six weeks after it was shut down due to crude oil supply challenges caused by pipeline attacks.

This was disclosed by Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment, Victor Adeniran during a tour of petrol stations in Abuja over the weekend.

“We want to appeal to Nigerians to bear with us. Part of what the NNPC has done was making sure the refineries are back on stream. The reasons the refineries are not working today is because the pipelines that are supposed to supply crude oil to them are not working. We are almost there,” Adeniran said, according to Vanguard.

“You can imagine if we have been able to put the Escravos – Warri pipeline into use, Warri refinery would have been up and running and part of this problem would have been alleviated.

“Port Harcourt is working because we have been able to fix the Bonny – Port Harcourt line. As I am talking to you, we are transporting crude oil from Bonny to Port Harcourt refinery. Kaduna cannot work because Warri also supplies Kaduna with product," he added.

Adeniran also said that the NNPC had made arrangements for intervention trucks, with a carrying capacity of 60,000 litres of petrol, to boost supply in a bid to resolve the current fuel scarcity.