The Senate Ad-Hoc Committee to Investigate the Turnaround Maintenance of Nigeria’s Refineries has said that the upgrade and full rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery is at 90 per cent completion and expected to commence operation before the end of the year.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, has said the country would be able to ramp up oil and gas production to feed Dangote and other local refineries by curtailing pipeline vandalisation and oil theft through its new partnership with the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Nigeria may be inching closer to increasing domestic refining as the Federal Government declared that the Port Harcourt Refinery is 80 per cent completed.

Two months after the announcement of the technical completion of Port Harcourt Refinery, the Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA) has asked the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the nation’s refineries.

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) said it has completed the supply of over 475,000bbls of crude oil to the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited (PHRC). Managing Director and Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, in a statement, said Shell resumed the supply last week. Okunbor said the supply…

Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), yesterday, asked refinery managers across the world, especially original manufacturers, who have maintained at least $2 billion yearly turnover in the last four years to take control of the Port Harcourt Refinery.

If there’s any organization in Nigeria that is a soft target for slothful critics, it’s most certainly the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). The reasons are obvious. It’s in charge of harnessing Nigeria’s oil and gas reserves, which provides 95 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and 80 percent of its budgetary revenues.…

Barely one week to the deadline of Port Harcourt Refinery take-off, the immediate past Chairman of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), in Rivers State, Dr. Joseph Obele, said that the first phase of rehabilitation work at the refinery has been completed and undergoing a test run. Besides, inquiries by The Guardian showed that residents of Rivers State are not excited about…

The Port Harcourt refinery in Rivers State has finally resumed operation after years of being shut down. This follows a $1.5 billion rehabilitation project initiated in 2019 by the former president, Muhammadu Buhari administration to restore its capacity to 210,000 barrels per day, aiming to enhance domestic refining and reduce reliance on imported petroleum products.…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has urged the Federal Government to hastily complete the ongoing revamping work on the Port Harcourt Refinery in a bid to cushion the effect of the hike and unavailability of Products. The association made the call during the Port Harcourt Depot Unit‘s 2023 Annual General Meeting/Election, AGM,…

The hardship being faced by the masses over the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) with galloping inflation and unsettling foreign exchange crisis may not stop anytime soon as the succour expected to come in December this year .....

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri, has again assured that there is no going back on the December 2023 deadline for Port Harcourt refinery, which is currently undergoing refurbishment to come on stream.