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We Are Doing Rehabilitation, Not Turnaround Maintenance – NNPC
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday said that the $1.5 billion approved for the Port Harcourt refinery was for complete rehabilitation and not turnaround maintenance.
The Group Managing Director (GMD), NNPC, Mele Kyari, said this in Abuja while reacting to controversies and unverified claims by some Nigerians on the funds meant for the project.
Kyari said that the refinery would work in optimal capacity at the completion of the rehabilitation programme.
“We are not doing turnaround maintenance, we are doing rehabilitation of the refinery, and it is very different; it means that we are replacing certain major components.
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“We are introducing some items that ordinarily we won’t need to do in turnaround maintenance and there are major shift in the status of the plant that we have to do and it is not done during turnaround maintenance.
“During rehabilitation, by the 18th month, part of this plant will begin to produce particularly the gasoline plants.
Mele Kyari, NNPC
“In rehabilitation, we normally don’t shut down the plant completely, we repair a segment of it, and then it starts working, and then, you move to the next segment.
“You continue to scale up and that is why, within the four-year period, the contractor would have completely left your premises.
“What it means in a technical sense is that in 18 months, we will see production coming from that plant; we will follow it plant by plant until we are completely done,” Kyari said.
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