The Federal Government has said the Port Harcourt Refinery, which was initially scheduled to commence operations in December 2022, will now start operations before the end of the first quarter of 2023.
Mele Kyari, The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, stated this on Monday in Abuja during the President’s regime scorecard series organised by the Federal Ministry of Information.
Kyari, while stating the reasons for the delay, said “The promise was to start the fuel plant, which is the 60,000 barrels per day (bpd) component of this activity by the last quarter of 2022, but it is not practical. So, we will start it off in the first quarter of 2023, otherwise, every other process is ongoing.”