The Bola Tinubu administration has made good its promise to rehabilitate and make functional the Port Harcourt Refinery as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) on Thursday announced the mechanical completion and the flare start off of the nation’s biggest refinery.
Mr Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (oil), said in Port Harcourt the promise to deliver the Phase 1 and the mechanical start up of the refinery has been fulfilled.
Persecondnews recalls that President Tinubu had after his inauguration promised to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt Refinery.
Buoyed by the successful completion of Phase 1, the minister also said the government and the NNPCL were committed in delivering Phase 2 come 2024.
He said: “We announce to Nigerians that in fulfilment of our pledge to bring on stream the phase 1, of the Port Harcourt Refinery by the end of 2023, and the subsequent streaming of the phase 2 in 2024.
“We gladly announce the mechanical completion and the flare start-up of the refinery today December 21.
“This heralds the commencement of production, and another landmark of President Tinubu’s “renewed hope agenda.”
Mr Mele Kolo Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of NNPCL, in his remarks, said his team was committed to ensuring that the refinery add value not only to the biggest oil firm in Africa but to Nigerians.
“We are committed to seeing to the completion of the Phase 2 in 2024,” Persecond News quotes Kyari as saying.
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