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The end of December timeline for mechanical completion of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC) remains sacrosanct, says the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

“We have said from time that by the end of December, the mechanical completion of the refinery will be completed. Yes, we are still maintaining that. Nothing has changed,” NNPC Chief Communications Officer Olufemi Soneye told The Nation yesterday.

Soneye had on November 6, 2023, assured that the NNPCL was optimistic about the completion of the rehabilitation this month.

He said that owing to the assurance the contractors gave the oil giant, nothing had so far altered the completion date.

He added: “What they (contractors) said is that all things working well, the refineries will be working in December and January.

“That is what has been there and that is what the contractors have said. And we are working on that timeline.

“And as NNPC, we are going around on every milestone we are pushing out information. So, we are working on that December/January.

You know I am not the contractor, my own is to report.

“The assurance we have is that December/January, the refineries will be working.

“And nothing has happened as of now to change that or to move it forward so we are on course.

“If anything changes, I will defer to you that this is going to happen. But in of the timeline, the timeline is still on course.”

Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil) Heineken Lokpobiri while inspecting the rehabilitation, said that the NNPCL should be able if the December end timeline was not met.

The rehabilitation of the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemicals Company Limited (KRPC) is expected to be completed between October and December 2024. The work was awarded last February to a South Korean firm, Daewoo E&C at $740.6 million.

https://thenationonlineng.net/port-harcourt-refinery-ready-this-month-nnpcl-insists/

Good news!

pls no Bad mouth abeg!

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You're lying. That refinery is nowhere bear complete not to talk of to begin operations...scam and audio completion.
Believe him at ur own peril

The people at NNPCL are playing snakes and ladders with themselves,it seems they don't understand nobody takes them serious
If they like they should start tomorrow,that is their business.I expect that this Government should do a serious inventory on all NNPCL assets which include all the Scrap metals called Refineries,Depots located in all the six regions and what have you
This will allow Government auction off the ones that they will and retain the ones that they will,there is no need spending money on something that is unproductive
This Government should take the bull by the horn and strip NNPCL or their powers,sell off those scrap metals to serious private individuals who will make the place productive

Dangote Refinery has made the people at NNPCL know that all this shakara go soon end my people,let them keep wasting scare forex on projects that will become an avenue for abandoned projects

Kindly visit my signature for good properties at the Ibeju Lekki Industrial Hub

These people just see Nigerians as fools

By January 21st.

Yes we remain steadfast in the opening of Rivers refinery. What we did not mention is the exact year, we actually meant December 2024

Believe this trash at your own peril.

This is just an avenue to loot!
Nigeria is gone!

All thanks to Tinubu and yollluba people for bringing this calamity on us.

What of dangote? Abi he hasn't started processing the crude oil he received

christejames:
These people just see Nigerians as fools

Honestly! It beats my imagination how these people keep seeing the Yolubas as foools because they can't think.

Tinubu is just using Yoluba people because he knows they'll always him because he is their tribesman even though a monumental failure

I will believe this once the refinery resumes operations. Dangote must never be allowed to monopolize fuel production in this country, we go hear wennn!

nedu666:
What of dangote? Abi he hasn't started processing the crude oil he received

Dangote is still expecting some crude

No be this Dec? Abi them get another one??

Call me when you begin productive and profitable output

okay

It’s like the more working refineries we have, the higher the cost of fuel ⛽️ in this country.

Omo make dem hold their unproductive audio refinery.

The temperature will become a million times hotter if true. This can go different ways:

1. We’ll keep hearing “completion set for this month” every month from January next year till further notice.

2. The refinery will work properly. Its activities combined with illegal refining will make Rivers state a sweltering, soot-filled hell for citizens. Expect many people to relocate from the state.

3. Lack of maintenance will result in a start and stop cycle of affairs.

Na so.

Lol

Oyyana

Ok

I tire o

Solsix:
No be this Dec? Abi them get another one??

The non-mechanical nko?
This one's wan use English wound person...

Later yhu all would hear the non-mechanical aspect wasn't ready that's why we didn't take off operations....
Nigeria na joke sha.....and let's assume it is fixed and starts functioning with funds from the government pockets, just watch how it'd be privatized immediately and one Oando PLC would bid for it and win.... albeit secretly...

Na mechanical completion

Cunning man die, wayo man bury am

Solsix:
No be this Dec? Abi them get another one??

We don't want mechanically complete, that was how you guys said boko haram had been technically defeated then. Speak simple English. Tell us Port Harcourt Refinery is working simple!!!

ok

If you know you know

Lol.

These guys love to deceive themselves and some gullible fools out there.

Okay... Let me see what fuel marketers will say by the end of January 2024.


A government without transparency will never endear itself to its citizens.