P’Harcourt, Warri refineries begin crude production – NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries will begin crude production after nine months of phased rehabilitation conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
On Wednesday the national oil company made the announcement a statement stating that the plants had commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs.

It was stated that, since the Port Harcourt Refining Company was ramping up capacity to about 60 per cent of the 210,000 barrels per day of crude capacity, production from the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company had been projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed capacity 125,000 bpd.
According to the NNPC, the Port Harcourt refinery will have a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day, while the Warri refinery will contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol to the local refining capacity.
The NNPC emphasised that it had to adopt the phased rehabilitation approach after the original builders of the refineries, who were initially contacted for the turnaround maintenance of the plants, came up with unfavourable terms.