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The Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, Mr Bayo Onanuga, has said work is currently ongoing at the 150,000 barrels per day plant of the Port Harcourt Refining Company in Rivers State.

PHRC has two plants including the 60,000bpd facility, and the 150,000bpd plant.

Onanuga also said the 60,000bpd refinery is operating at 70 per cent of installed capacity and plans to increase production shortly.

He further said the refinery receives regular crude oil contrary to claims of lacking the product.

He disclosed this after ing a fact-finding team at the 60,000 barrels per day refinery on Wednesday.

On Thursday in a post on X titled “Putting to Rest Rumours about Port Harcourt Refinery Complex: Our Fact-Finding Mission”, the presidential aide said the lies and doubts about the refinery had been dismissed by the team’s fact-finding mission.

He explained that the team was satisfied with the state of the refinery.

Onanuga said, “I was part of a fact-finding team that visited the 60,000 barrels daily Port Harcourt Refining Complex on Wednesday. I will now share our findings.

“Our team, guided by the refinery’s Managing Director Ibrahim Onoja, toured the entire complex, from the computerised control room to the loading bay and every section in between. We asked pointed questions and received satisfactory answers, dispelling our doubts and misconceptions.

“Nigerians must ignore naysayers and false information about the refinery’s operations. While it is not currently running at 100 per cent, it is functioning at 70 per cent installed capacity, with plans to increase production shortly.

“Furthermore, the refinery receives regular crude supplies, contrary to claims that it lacks crude to refine.”

He commended NNPCL for reviving “this dead asset,” on the “verge of becoming a museum piece.”

In November, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Olufemi Soneye, announced the commencement of the Port Harcourt refinery.

NNPCL spokesman said the refinery commenced operation with 60 per cent capacity with ongoing efforts to ramp up production.

Soneye said the Refinery is processing 60,000 barrels per day of crude, adding that the facility has a combined 210,000 barrels per day capacity.

During the visit, Onanuga said the team verified that the refinery processes petroleum products, including kerosene, low-pour fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas, diesel, and petrol.

“The latter is blended with other products to make the petrol we use in our cars. We even tested samples of the products,” he said.

“The refinery’s recent overhaul has transformed it into a modern facility. We saw upgraded and replaced parts, including part of the 300km new pipelines.

“Some parts the company had not changed in 27 years have been replaced with new ones, bringing the refinery up to 21st-century standard.”

The spokesperson said the revamping work has “indeed brought the refinery back to life,” adding that what was formerly a 20th-century refinery has been transformed into a state-of-the-art facility.

Onanuga said the team also visited the co-located second Port Harcourt refinery, commissioned in 1989, adding that workers were busy dismantling old, rusty parts and installing new ones.

“Although officials declined to provide a timeline for its completion, there was an air of confidence that it would soon be operational, ing its 60,000 barrels a day counterpart,” the spokesperson said.

“My curiosity has been satisfied. I commend NNPC Limited and the refinery team for reviving this dead asset, which was on the verge of becoming a museum piece.”

Onanuga said the fact-finding mission “has buried the various doubts and lies about the Port Harcourt Refinery Complex”.

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Good

This government has been updating Nigerians regularly about their policies and moves.

Nice

dey play. basket mouth don open mouth again oooo

another media project.
Finish, open and let's see it working not like the last one they bambozelled every one with. or like Buharis rice pyramid

helinues:
Good

This government has been updating Nigerians regularly about their policies and moves.

Nice

Let the eggs rest !

Another propaganda to sell to Nigerians.

Government of lies, deceit and failure

So how many Plants are in the refinery so we know when the Port Harcourt Refinery will start working

Sakamaje

Alright

I for talk say Na lamba but I refuse to it.....

Make I believe una small with a lil spice of ginger!.....Ride on !!

I trust the Tinubu stration to deliver.

Good days lie ahead.

I just hope it will be completed.

No offence

In other words,it's not ready yet!

Once you hear Mr. Bayo Onanuga RUN oh!, naa super Story

Nice

This guy doesn't know his job ,i beg!
Let NNPCL Convince Nigerians, this is not about President Tinubu

Too much talk talk and less visible project on ground why. Let ur work do the talking, not by lies.

Congratulations to Faithfull Nigerians

helinues:
Good

This government has been updating Nigerians regularly about their policies and moves.

Nice

Wake up jor

what is even the gain of sinking money into these projects and no assurances of price reduction in fuel

RevFrNoah:
Friday should not be wasted too.

Oga, it is time you stopped trolling that APC e-bot.

You have wasted nearly ten years of your life trying to drive him off this site. With one monicker or the other, and everytime, he just laughs at you and pretends and pretends.

You have probably created over 300-500 monickers to troll one person. The guy meanwhile is just looking at you and laughing.

It's like the obsession with this guy dey strong with you. You have allowed him to build a house and a block of flat on top land for your head. You are making him your god. And the more attention you give to him, the more he will dominate you.

At some point, you got to ignore the tribalist and bigot. The more you think you are aggravating him, the more you give am power. That's how trolls behave. They want attention. Negative, positive, it don't matter. And you are giving him too much attention.

Plus it is making you look childish.

Don't roll in the mud with pigs. People go mistake una for a pig.

I don talk my own.!

Onanuga now doubles or triples as the official spokesman or P.R.O of NNPCL and Port Harcourt Refinery.
Defending APC and their propaganda is really a Herculean task.

Mtchw

The more you look, the less you see.


So so lies upon lies

So PHRC is now a strategic communication for this ethnocentric,bigoted,tribal,nespotic pocket edition SA to President on South South matters.

Why are some people displaying all forms of Bitterness and frustrations about this development news?

This is super story, a life of strife and sorrow by Bayo Onanuga

helinues:
Why are some people displaying all forms of Bitterness and frustrations about this progressive news?

Today is going o

Mad

This government of Jagaban is really trying?