Lagos modular refinery to begin production next year

The Integrated Oil and Gas Limited has confirmed that its 20,000 bpd modular refinery is on course and will be coming on stream in 2017.
Manager, Media Relations/Corporate Affairs, Enyeribe Anyanwu, in a statement said: “The modular refinery which is located at Tomaro Island off the coast of Apapa port zone is expected to come on stream next year,”

Emerging from an environmental screening meeting with the Environment Unit of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the technical partners/engineering consultants and the environmental impact assessment consultant, Tayo Ogunbanjo, Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Oil & Gas Limited, Emmanuel Iheanacho, said every necessary step was being taken to ensure that the refinery was delivered on schedule.

Iheanacho said the meeting was part of the imperatives for the acquisition of the Environmental Impact Assessment Report (ESR) and other approvals for the refinery.

According to him, the meeting looked at the Front End Engineering Designs (FEED) of the refinery where the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) was explained and analysed to the DPR.

He said after all the loose ends and every environmental concerns have been addressed, the company would get the EIA report. The next stage, he explained, would be the presentation of the Detailed Engineering Design for final screening and approval after which the company would apply for the approval to construct from the DPR.

Ogunbanjo who is driving Eko Petrochem & Refining, the special purpose company that is handling the greenfield refinery project for Integrated Oil & Gas, said the company is not leaving any stone unturned in its determination to enhance the refining capacity of Nigeria and save the citizens the agony of perennial fuel scarcity and unnecessary depletion of the foreign reserves.Environment Manager, DPR, Adeniyi Balogun, expressed satisfaction with the progress of work on the refinery project.

He said as soon as the company and its consultants addressed some issues raised by the DPR team to the workshop and satisfy other requirements as demanded by the nation’s environmental laws, the approval to begin physical work on the project would be given by the DPR.

He said the Federal Government is quite desirous of having private refineries in order to end the problem of fuel importation and its associated depletion of the nation’s scarce foreign exchange and has therefore told all the approving and regulatory authorities to ensure that unnecessary impediments are removed for the private refineries to be established.

Integrated Oil & Gas is a frontline independent downstream oil and gas company in Nigeria involved in the importation, storage and distribution of clean petroleum products. The company presently operates two tank farms in Apapa, Lagos with a combined capacity of 85 million cubic litres and is currently developing new state-of-the-art tank farm facilities in Kano and Calabar.