Port Harcourt refinery
25 Feb
Nigeria may be inching closer to increasing domestic refining as the Federal Government declared that the Port Harcourt Refinery is 80 per cent completed.
21 Feb
Two months after the announcement of the technical completion of Port Harcourt Refinery, the Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA) has asked the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the nation’s refineries.
12 Feb
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) said it has completed the supply of over 475,000bbls of crude oil to the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited (PHRC). Managing Director and Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, in a statement, said Shell resumed the supply last week. Okunbor said the supply…
16 Jan
Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), yesterday, asked refinery managers across the world, especially original manufacturers, who have maintained at least $2 billion yearly turnover in the last four years to take control of the Port Harcourt Refinery.
6 Jan
If there’s any organization in Nigeria that is a soft target for slothful critics, it’s most certainly the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). The reasons are obvious. It’s in charge of harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas reserves, which provides 95 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and 80 percent of its budgetary revenues.…
22 Dec
Barely one week to the deadline of Port Harcourt Refinery take-off, the immediate past Chairman of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), in Rivers State, Dr. Joseph Obele, said that the first phase of rehabilitation work at the refinery has been completed and undergoing a test run. Besides, inquiries by The Guardian showed that residents of Rivers State are not excited about…
21 Dec
The Port Harcourt refinery in Rivers State has finally resumed operation after years of being shut down. This follows a $1.5 billion rehabilitation project initiated in 2019 by the former president, Muhammadu Buhari administration to restore its capacity to 210,000 barrels per day, aiming to enhance domestic refining and reduce reliance on imported petroleum products.…
13 Dec
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has urged the Federal Government to hastily complete the ongoing revamping work on the Port Harcourt Refinery in a bid to cushion the effect of the hike and unavailability of Products. The association made the call during the Port Harcourt Depot Unit‘s 2023 Annual General Meeting/Election, AGM,…
27 Aug 2023
The hardship being faced by the masses over the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) with galloping inflation and unsettling foreign exchange crisis may not stop anytime soon as the succour expected to come in December this year .....
26 Aug 2023
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri, has again assured that there is no going back on the December 2023 deadline for Port Harcourt refinery, which is currently undergoing refurbishment to come on stream.
3 Aug 2023
President Bola Tinubu has said the petroleum refinery in Port Harcourt will start working by December 2023. Tinubu in a statement by presidential spokesman, Dele Alake, said the "Port Harcourt refineries will start production by December 2023 after the completion of the ongoing rehabilitation contract between NNPCL and Italian firm, Maire Tecnimont SpA." The president…