The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has announced that the new Port Harcourt refinery is now over 90% complete.
Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, made this statement on Monday during a visit to the facility by labor leaders from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Rivers State.
The Telegraph recalls that, following several delays and at least seven missed deadlines, NNPCL finally launched phase one of the Port Harcourt refinery, with a capacity of 60,000 barrels per day (bpd).
The rehabilitation of the refinery, which has a total capacity of 210,000 bpd, began in 2021 after the federal government secured a $1.5 billion contract to restore the facility, which had fallen into disrepair over the years.
Initially, NNPCL had refrained from disclosing the volume of petrol, diesel, jet fuel, and naphtha the refinery would produce, which was criticized for not aligning with global transparency standards. In response to public backlash, the national oil company later revealed that the refinery is currently producing 1.4 million liters of petrol per day, a figure that many consider to be relatively low.
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