The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced the formal commencement of the first phase of the rehabilitation of the two hundred and ten thousand barrels per day capacity Port Harcourt refinery.
Port Harcourt refinery complex also houses the sixty thousand barrels per day old refinery that was built in 1965 and the one hundred and fifty barrels per day new refinery, inaugurated in 1989.
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, flagged-off the formal commencement of the rehabilitation work on the facility at the premises of the refinery in Port Harcourt yesterday, nineteen years after the last Turn Around Maintenance exercise of the nation’s premier refining plant.
NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, in a statement issued in Abuja, said the project would be executed by Milan-based Maire Tecnimont S.p.A, in collaboration with its Nigerian affiliate, Tecnimont Nigeria.
It further segmented the rehabilitation to begin with Port Harcourt refinery complex and then progress to Warri and Kaduna refinery complexes using the same methodology.
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