The two refineries in NNPC’s Refinery complex in Port Harcourt, in eastern Nigeria, will produce 9.8Million Litres of gasoline every day, when the plants become operational, according to updates from the technical staff on ground.
In the next several weeks however, only 1.8Million Litres per day of gasoline will be delivered from the PortHarcourt complex.The smaller, (60,000Barrels per stream day) older plant (built in 1965), whose overhaul the company sayshas been completed, will produce 1.8Million litres of gasoline per day according to multiple sources.
It will utilise 90% of its capacity. The larger (150,000BPSD) ‘newer’ refinery (commissioned in 1989) will deliver 8Million litres of gasoline per day when it is operational in the first half of 2025(expectedly) the sources tell Africa Oil+Gas Report. The (125,000BPSD) Warri Refinery, located in Delta State in the country’s mid-west will be producing 2.3Million litres of gasoline every day.
Like the smaller Port Harcourt Refinery, the Warri Refinery is also expected to be in operation soon. The Warri plant will utilise only 60% of its capacity. NNPC sources say they have no issues with feedstock.
If these two plants do start production in the next few weeks, they will be producing 4.1Million litres per day. NNPC top brass, including Dapo Segun, the company’s Executive Vice President (Downstream), have blamed technical hitches in the commissioning phase of the plants -after mechanical completion- as the factors for the drag in delivering petroleum products to the public.
NNPC has announced several dates for final completion of the two Port Harcourt refineries which have been undergoing turn around maintenance since April 2021, when the government announced it had let out a $1.5Billion contract to Marie Technimont the Italian engineering firm, for their rehabilitation. It has been four years and six months since and there have been widespread misgivings about the several schedule changes.
Marie Tecnimont, will be the interim Operations& Maintenance Manager for the two Port Harcourt plants in the first nine (9) months of operations after their commissioning.
Source:https://africaoilgasreport.com