Port Harcourt Refinery Receives 475,000 Barrels of Crude Oil

Port Harcourt Refinery Receives 475,000 Barrels of Crude Oil

Shell Petroleum Growth Firm of Nigeria Restricted says it has accomplished the availability of over 475,000 barrels of crude oil to the Port Harcourt Refining Firm Restricted (PHRC), via its Bonny Oil & Fuel Terminal (BOGT).

This, in accordance with an announcement signed by the Media Relations Supervisor, Abimbola Essien-Nelson, is in furtherance of the Federal Authorities’s dedication to extend home refining capability and make merchandise extra available within the nation.

She stated BOGT resumed this provide final week after a protracted outage of over 5 years, throughout which period the refinery underwent rehabilitation and integrity actions on its provide pipeline from BOGT.

Nation Chair, Shell Corporations in Nigeria and Managing Director, The Shell Petroleum Growth Firm of Nigeria Restricted (SPDC), Dr. Osagie Okunbor, stated, “Groups from BOGT and PHRC labored via intensive preparations, collaboration, and dedication to make the venture profitable. That is certainly a major step within the nation’s renewed efforts to utilise key infrastructures to guarantee the regular provide of merchandise from the refining firm to the Nigerian market.”

Okunbor stated, “Future provides from BOGT could be guided by the demand for the product.”

Bonny Terminal Set up Supervisor, Osita Nnajiofor, stated, “Earlier than implementing the provides of the product to the refining firm, the venture groups first assured the integrity of pipelines related to NNPC Restricted subsidiaries and integrity and upkeep actions on the BOGT refinery export pumps (which had been shut down for an prolonged interval).”

He stated, “These actions resulted within the profitable and secure completion of the refinery provide with no hurt to folks, surroundings, or tools.”

“The recommencement of crude oil provide from the Bonny Oil and Fuel Terminal to the Port Harcourt Refining Firm Restricted is a major achievement and a game-changer for the business and the nation and can help federal authorities’s aspiration of regular provide of petroleum merchandise to the downstream market and different related advantages to the financial system of the nation,” he concluded.

Port Harcourt is one among 4 government-owned refineries which have been moribund for years, however which the federal government is making an attempt to resuscitate to finish the nation’s reliance on gas imports.