The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has announced that the mechanical completion of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company is set to be finalised in the first quarter of this year.
WRPC, located in Warri, Delta State, and established in 1978, is one of the three refineries managed by NNPCL, alongside the Port Harcourt Refining Company and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company.
Both Port Harcourt and Kaduna facilities are undergoing rehabilitation. The Warri refinery, a complex conversion facility, has the capacity to refine 125,000 barrels of crude oil daily, featuring a petrochemical plant established in 1988, producing polypropylene and carbon black.
Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPCL, Olufemi Soneye, responded briefly that the target is to complete the mechanical work in the first quarter of this year.
“Warri should be done by Q1 (first quarter) 2024,” he stated.
On Wednesday, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri, mentioned that efforts are still ongoing for the Warri refinery. In response to a query regarding the Port Harcourt refinery, which achieved mechanical completion on December 21, 2023, Lokpobiri acknowledged the substantial rehabilitation efforts at the plants. Despite the scale of the exercise, he conveyed optimism about the facilities becoming operational in the near future.
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