The Port Harcourt refinery has fully resumed operations following a short period of “scaling down,” according to Mr. Ibrahim Onoja, the Managing Director of the company.
Speaking to journalists after a tour of the facility on Sunday night, Mr. Onoja confirmed that the refinery had resumed the distribution of products, including Premium Motor Spirit, kerosene, and diesel.
”The refining plant has undergone extensive upgrades to enhance efficiency and reliability which had also impacted on production capacity.
”We replaced most of the equipment including pumps installation and cables.
“The plant is running and we are trucking out our products,” he said.
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”We are managing the process with the number of trucks available today, using three loading arms for evacuation, this would be resolved soon.
”Our operations were not totally halted but reduced due to some of the improvements that we needed to make in terms of getting more loading arms operational.
”We have been evacuating refined petroleum products from the refinery since yesterday and its obviously going to be a continuous process,” he said.
”We have suplus product. Let us sayd we have up to 100 trucks today, we will evacuate them in a five hours, Its no longer our problem, its the tanker drivers,”he said.