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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Thursday announced the formal commencement of the first phase of the rehabilitation of the 210,000 barrels per day capacity Port Harcourt refinery.

Port Harcourt refinery complex also houses the 60,000 barrels per day old refinery that was built in 1965 and the 150,000 barrels per day new refinery, inaugurated in 1989.


The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, flagged-off the formal commencement of the rehabilitation work on the facility at the premises of the refinery in Port Harcourt on Thursday, 19 years after the last Turn Around Maintenance exercise of the nation’s premier refining plant.

NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, in a statement issued in Abuja, said the project would be executed by Milan-based Maire Tecnimont S.p.A, in collaboration with its Nigerian , Tecnimont Nigeria.

NNPC said it was engaging Eni/NAOC as Technical Advisor to the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refining Company and that NNPC/PHRC would leverage Eni’s extensive refinery supply chain network and warehouses to procure critical materials for the programme.

The corporation’s spokesperson noted that the first phase of the rehabilitation contract, which would run for six months, would involve detailed integrity check and equipment inspection of the Port Harcourt refinery complex beginning from the end of March 2019.


According to Ughamadu, the integrity test will come as a forerunner to the second phase of the rehabilitation project which entails a comprehensive revamp of the complex aimed at restoring the refinery to a minimum of 90 per cent capacity utilisation.

He noted that subject to the successful completion of the integrity checks, Phase Two of the project would be executed on an Engineering Procurement Construction basis by Tecnimont in collaboration with the original builders of the plant, JGC of Japan.


Speaking on behalf of the contractors, Antonio Vella, Chief Officer, Upstream, Eni, said all the companies involved would deploy all available modern resources to ensure effective upgrade of the plant.

Vella stated that with the commitment of all parties involved, it was certain that NNPC would be able to celebrate the revamp of the PHRC that would lead to its full capacity utilisation on schedule and in full safety.


Speaking on behalf of the workers’ unions, the Branch Chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, Odor Ayiri, and Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Dibiah Joseph, tly pledged the of workers to ensuring a smooth turnaround of the facility.

Recall that NNPC had to abandon its earlier funding strategy by its DSDP Term Contractors/Consortia due to onerous conditions demanded after more than 12 months of negotiations.

NNPC resorted to immediate direct funding from internal cash flows while it approached the financial markets for debt financing.

NNPC further segmented the rehabilitation to begin with Port Harcourt refinery complex and then progress to Warri and Kaduna refinery complexes using the same methodology.

https://punchng.com/nnpc-begins-rehabilitation-of-port-harcourt-refinery/

APC government wants to take the South south on another expensive merry go round

This was how they started the Ogoni clean up on the pages of the newspaper and used the diversion to build a dry port in the north, with Amaechi doing the supervision

SLAP44:
APC government wants to take the South south on another expensive merry go round

This was how they started the Ogoni clean up on the pages of the newspaper and used the diversion to build a dry port in the north, with Amaechi doing the supervision

hehehe

This is unlike the cursed PDP that will budget billions of dollar for TAM for refineries n at the end of the day declared the wrong type of TAM was ordered n this happened for the 16 years it ruled. May it never be well with PDP n each n everyone of it ers for the locust years it took Nigeria through.

naijapips04:

how many times has APC informed us about this same repairs of refineries ? They've been singing it since they got into office

How this does not sound foolish n completely senselessly to you is beyond me, APC sings without wasting billions of dollars in TAM but PDP does sing but waste billions of dollars on TAM only to claim it paid for the wrong TAM yearly for 16 years ?!

And in anyone sick head it is APC you chose to blame ?! At times it feels like I live with only mad people in this Nigeria.

Funny people

Another nonsense project to recover money spend on election

Shey they initially told it would work In one year after resumption of office

Good

Rehabilitation on paper only. Fake government . The last Turn around maintenance they claimed to do, they only painted the buildings, that's all. I will go there for another visit to see if their claims are true.

White Elephant

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I hope my Igbo brothers will not spoil it.....

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Again and again... Conduit pipe things

See them up, foolish set of humans. They rather Atiku sell the NNPC to himself, sick country with excessively foolish people.

Parada:
This is unlike the cursed PDP that will budget billions of dollar for TAM for refineries n at the end of the day declared the wrong type of TAM was ordered n this happened for the 16 years it ruled. May it never be well with PDP n each n everyone of it ers for the locust years it took Nigeria through.

how many times has APC informed us about this same repairs of refineries ? They've been singing it since they got into office

Nice

Timekeeper:
I hope my Igbo brothers will not spoil it.....

What did your Igbo wife tell you?

Cc lzaa husbandsnatcha

SLAP44:
APC government wants to take the South south on another expensive merry go round

This was how they started the Ogoni clean up on the pages of the newspaper and used the diversion to build a dry port in the north, with Amaechi doing the supervision

In a bid to politicise everything, you ended up sounding daft

kolo company

The same story all the time

The same cooking every day. The food never done since 1999
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everyday 'we are rehabilitating port harcourt refinery'. so much words but not a single action

APC and paper work are synonymous.

Nasoso story,story everyday,......


Nepa no bring light o*2..

Fuel no dey for gen*2 eheyyyy

Wetin APC do wetin pdp forget to

Make Dem go learn oooo

Cos na the matter ooo

Food for the boys, leverage for the militants


If u know u know

why waste money too rehabilitate this refinery, where as these funds would have been used to build new ones just like they are planning to do in katsina state. ..just another avenue to loot public funds...

Woe betide all the corrupt staff of nn pc

Na fire go burn all of una die

Next level things, Buhari you too much jare.

Free money to them and their families again

#YourNextLevel

Parada:
See them up, foolish set of humans. They rather Atiku sell the NNPC to himself, sick country with excessively foolish people.

Government has no business running refinaries. It will not work and can never work as long as you have civil servants running the place. They are the locust you mentioned and not PDP, APC etc. The refinaries will continue to be money pits except they are sold.