Press
Release
In
order to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the Port Harcourt Refining
Company Limited (PHRC), the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani
Alison-Madueke is to commission three 25 megawatts gas turbines, installed and
operated by an independent power producer.
The
initiative is part of pragmatic measures to ensure continuous and unimpeded
refining of petroleum products in PHRC.
The
Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemical of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, Engr. Gregory Udoh disclosed this in an exclusive
interview in Abuja.
Engr.
Udoh said the arrangement with the independent power producers was aimed at
ensuring steady power supply to the refinery adding that staff of PHRC would
now focus majorly on the core mandate of refining petroleum products for
members of the public.
He
said over 60 percent of the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) materials have been
delivered to PHRC, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) and Warri
Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and installation of such equipment
and parts are in progress.
The
GED noted that crude supply to the PHRC was now through marine vessels,
bypassing the implacable activities of oil thieves along the Bonny to PHRC
crude supply pipeline.
Speaking in similar vein,
the Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, Engr.
Bafred Enjugu has said that the turnaround maintenance of the refinery is
ongoing and the facility is running optimally.
Engr. Enjugu noted that as
at today, the plant is refining premium motor spirit, dual purpose kerosene,
automotive gas oil and other petroleum products.
Engr. Enjugu stated that
the Company through public private partnership arrangement has resolved the
power problem of the facility adding that the three gas turbines installed by
the partnership have the capacity to generate 72 megawatts of power which
exceeds the 23 megawatts requirement of PHRC.
On his part, the Executive
Director Services of the PHRC, Mr. Ralph Ugwu maintained that the PHRC remains
the oldest, largest and newest refinery in the country.
It
would be recalled that in 2011, the decision was made to rehabilitate all
refineries using the Original Refinery Builder (ORG) but the ORBs declined
participation which led to a phased rehabilitation of all refineries,
simultaneously and in more easily manageable bits and packages over a period of
18 months.
OHI
ALEGBE
Group
General Manager
Group
Public Affairs Division,
NNPC
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