P-Harcourt, Warri refineries to produce 8.5m litres of petrol per day – NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, stated yesterday that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries are expected to contribute about 8.5 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, per day to the country’s fuel supply, in the next couple of days.

The NNPC also disclosed that it has successfully recovered the System 2B pipeline which was breached last week at Arepo, Ogun State.

This was even as the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, yesterday, stated that it has shut down 22 filling stations in Abuja and environs for one month for undue profiteering.

The DPR, in a statement in Abuja, signed byMohammed Saidu, Head, Public Relations, stated that 19 of the petrol stations were sealed for selling above N87.00 per liter, two were sealed for diversion of petroleum products while the remaining one was grossly under-dispensing and selling products massively in jerry cans.

According to the DPR, the stations are to remain sealed for at least one month in addition to forfeiting their bridging claims as directed by the Federal Government.

Prominent among the petrol stations sanctioned are Conoil, Gwagwalada; Oando, Herbert Macaulay Way, Abuja; A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited, Abuja-Keffi Road, Nyanya, among others.

P-H, Warri refineries successfully re-streamed

On the issue of the refineries, the NNPC in a statement signed by its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, stated that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month phased rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.