Warri Refinery: Oil marketers set date to start lifting petrol

• Oil marketers have set a particular date to start lifting petrol from the Warri Refinery.

• The date for lifting PMS from the 125,000 barrels per day refinery is scheduled for February 2025.

• This was disclosed over the weekend by the Delta State Chairman of IPMAN

Oil marketers have set a date to start lifting Premium Motor Spirit from the 125,000 barrels per day Warri Refinery.

This comes as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) confirmed that its members have started lifting automotive gas oil (diesel) and kerosene.

Chairman, Delta State chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Harry Okenini, disclosed this in his remarks on the functionality of the refinery at the weekend.

According to him, the refinery is partly operational.

“For now, only the automotive gas oil, popularly called diesel, and dual-purpose kerosene are being produced and loaded out for consumption.

“Hopefully, by February, we are expecting cooking gas, PMS, and other products to come out.

As of now, the retail unit is only loading AGO and DPK,” he added.

Similarly, the National Chairman of the Surface Tank and Kerosene Peddlers, a branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Israel Omokere, stated that the refinery was in operation.

“Hopefully the PMS will come on board. We are loading kerosene and AGO for now.”

Daily Report Nigeria reports that on December 30, 2024, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, announced that Warri Refinery has commenced operation.

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Meanwhile, Kyari confirmed that the refinery is not 100 percent operational.

This comes as industrial sources familiar with the happenings at the Warri Refinery confirmed that it is only one out of the three units that was functional and producing diesel, gas, and kerosene.

Sell Warri, Kaduna refineries to private firms – Marketers tell FG

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria earlier advised the Federal Government to privatise the Warri and Kaduna refineries.

In a statement titled ‘Retrospect of Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Downstream Sector in 2024′, the association noted that the refineries’ privatisation would guarantee a successful 2025 in the downstream sector.

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