The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari has reassured Nigerians that the rehabilitated Port Harcourt Oil Refinery will commence operations within two weeks.
Kyari made the statement during an interactive session with the Senate on Thursday.
He stated that the delivery date for the Port Harcourt refinery and other refineries remains sacrosanct.
He added that since the mechanical completion of the plant in December last year, the Port Harcourt refinery has processed 450,000 barrels of crude.
Furthermore, the Senate Ad-hoc Committee is scheduled to visit the three refineries in Kaduna, Warri, and Port Harcourt soon for an on-the-spot assessment of the work progress.
He said:
“We will make sure that promises that we made about the rehabilitation of these refineries are kept. We completed the mechanical completion of PHRC in December.
“Now, we have crude oil already stocked in it. It is currently undergoing regulatory compliance test before we restream it. I assure you that this refinery will start in next two weeks.
“For Warri, we have also done mechanical work on it. It is undergoing regulatory compliance processes that we are doing with our regulators.
“Kaduna will be ready by December this year, but we have not reached that stage. We believe that it will also be ready on schedule.”
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