Mele Kyari, The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has revealed that the Port Harcourt refinery will resume operations in about two weeks time at a press briefing after he was summoned before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee investigating the various Turn Around Maintenance projects of the country’s refineries.
“We are serving this country with honour and dignity. And we will make sure that the promises we make on the rehabilitation of these refineries will take place,” he said.
“We did a mechanical completion of the refinery that was what we said in December. We now have crude oil already stocked in the refinery. We are doing regulatory compliance test that must happen in every refinery before you start it, and I assure you that this Port Harcourt refinery will start in the next two weeks.
“Completing the mechanical work means that you are done with the rehabilitation work, now you have to test to see how it works. Of course, we have also completed the mechanical work on the Warri refinery. It is also undergoing regulatory compliance; processes that we are doing with our regulator, and this will soon be completed and it will be ready.
“Kaduna refinery will be ready by December. We have not reached that stage in Kaduna, but we promise Kaduna will be delivered by December.”
“All crude lines are active and have actually delivered over 450,000 barrels into Port Harcourt refinery.
“We are confident of the integrity of it. Yes, there may be security issues, but also government is responding to the situation.”
However, the Nigerian Senate rejected the alleged report of fraud in the Turn Around Maintenance of the nation’s refineries currently being addressed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited.
