The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), yesterday, expressed that the Port Harcourt Refinery will continue unrefined petroleum creation before the end of June and will contribute around five million liters of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol to the Nigerian market.
Talking amid a voyage through NNPC retail outlets in Abuja, Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr. Joseph Dawha said that the NNPC was doing a staged execution of the recovery of the refineries, expressing that work at the Port Harcourt refinery is practically finish and will soon begin delivering at 80 percent of its introduced limit.
"We took a cognizant choice that if the refineries are not in a decent state to process unrefined for most extreme increases, then there was no reason for sending rough to the refineries. What we do is to attempt and fix it, so that when it begins preparing the unrefined, then we get genuine quality for the rough we have sent to the refineries.
"We are fulfilled by the level of work completed so far on the Port Harcourt refinery so that on the off chance that we begin preparing rough now, we will get genuine quality, and they won't be any worth mutilation that would have been the situation if the refineries are not working ideally."
In his response to the continuous fuel shortage, Dahwa faulted the circumstance for circulation difficulties recorded in a few sections of the nation, especially in Lagos.
In any case, he guaranteed Nigerians that the lasting fuel shortage will be tended to before the end of the week, as the NNPC at present has around 1.1 billion liters of petrol in its capacity. The stock is proportionate to 27 days adequacy. He included that the NNPC has sent 428 truckloads of fuel to Abuja and the nation over, in conjunction with the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC
