Port Harcourt
Refining Company, PHRC, Nigeria’s biggest refinery, has been re-streamed
and now producing between three and five million litres daily, according to the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
The re-streaming of the refinery,
which had been down for months due to poor maintenance and shortage of crude
feedstock, the management said, was aimed at optimising available capacity at
the plant to alleviate the suffering of Nigerians in accessing petroleum
products, particular premium motor spirit (petrol).
NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public
Affairs Division, Mr. Garba Muhammad, who confirmed this in a telephone
interview with Vanguard yesterday, also said Warri and Kaduna refineries were
gearing up for production over the next couple of weeks as, according to him,
“we have begun to supply crude to the refineries, but we are waiting to build
up crude reserves before we fire them up in the next two weeks or so.”
In another development, NNPC has urged motorists to desist from panic buying of fuel, saying it had deployed over 200 truckloads of petrol to Abuja and its environs.
In another development, NNPC has urged motorists to desist from panic buying of fuel, saying it had deployed over 200 truckloads of petrol to Abuja and its environs.