The Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm (NNPC) Restricted mentioned it has fulfilled its pledge to attain the mechanical completion of rehabilitation work on the Space 5 Plant of the Port Harcourt Refining Firm (PHRC).
Olufemi Soneye, Chief Company Communications Officer of NNPCL, disclosed this in an announcement on Thursday in Abuja, noting that rehabilitation work has been ongoing on the refinery for over two years.
This got here as the corporate had pledged to finish Part One of many mission (mechanical completion and flare start-up) of Previous Port Harcourt Refinery (Space 5) by December.
Talking throughout an inspection tour of the rehabilitation mission, which additionally coincided with the fifteenth Refineries’ Rehabilitation Steering Committee Assembly, the Group Chief Govt Officer, NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari, mentioned that 84.4 per cent of Space 5 Plant, a key element of the refinery, and 77.4 per cent of your entire rehabilitation mission have been accomplished as of December 15, 2023.
“In our quest to make sure that this refinery is re-streamed to proceed to ship worth to Nigerians, we made a promise that we’ll attain a mechanical completion of Part One of many rehabilitation mission by the top of December and get the opposite vegetation operating in 2024. Right now, now we have saved these commitments,” Kyari acknowledged.
Kyari recommended NNPCL’s workers and the EPCIC contractors for excellently guaranteeing that the refinery achieved that important milestone.
On his half, the chairman of the NNPCL Board, Chief Pius Akinyelure, described the milestone as “historic,” stressing that the board was happy with the workers and administration of the refinery.
“We’re simply beginning. We wish to be on the highest manufacturing stage so that we’ll preserve the costs of petroleum within the nation steady to consolation our folks and generate extra income for our nation,” Akinyelure famous.
Additionally talking, the Minister of State for Petroleum Sources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, mentioned the milestone is one other landmark of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
He thanked Nigerians for his or her endurance and belief within the firm’s capability to ship on this large mission.
In his deal with, the Minister of State for Petroleum (Gasoline), Ekperikpe Ekpo, mentioned re-streaming the refinery is an efficient omen for the nation’s Liquefied Petroleum Gasoline, LPG, trade, as LPG, also called cooking gasoline, is a serious by-product of the refinery.
Arogidigba World Journal earlier reported that the Port Harcourt Refinery had commenced mechanical operation.