President Bola Tinubu says the Port Harcourt refinery will
commence operations by December 2023.
Tinubu disclosed this on Wednesday night, according to a
statement by Dele Alake, special adviser to the president on special duties,
communications and strategy.
The president spoke at a meeting with the leadership of the
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) led by Joe Ajaero, its president, and that of the
Trade Union Congress, Festus Usifo.
He said production will begin after the ongoing
rehabilitation contract between Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)
Limited and Maire Tecnimont SpA is completed.
Tinubu pledged that he would continue to work for the best
interest of Nigeria, encouraging the labour leaders to join forces with him to
create a better and more prosperous country.
The Port Harcourt refinery is one of the country’s three oil
refineries — located in Warri, Port Harcourt, and Kaduna.
In 2021, the NNPC commenced the rehabilitation of the
refinery after FEC approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the project.
Several timelines had been established in the past for when
the refinery will be operational.
In September 2022, Timipre Sylva, former minister of state
for petroleum resources, said the old Port Harcourt refinery will become
functional by the end of last year.
In March 2023, Sylva said the plant would commence refining
activities before the end of the second quarter of 2023.
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