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Rehabilitated Port Harcourt Refinery Begins Sales of Petroleum Products


Port Harcourt Refinery has begun the sales of petroleum products after several postponements.

According to PUNCH ONLINE report, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited confirmed the commencement on Tuesday.

NNPC spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, disclosed that the loading of trucks would start today.

“Port Harcourt Refinery begins production. Truck loading starts today, Tuesday,” Soneye.

In another update on X, the NNPC said: “NNPC Ltd Delivers Port Harcourt Refinery as plant begins truckout of products today, Tuesday 26th November 2024 at 1.45 pm.

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“Watch the commissioning and trucking out event LIVE.”

It was learnt that the refinery would start with 60,000 barrels capacity per day, releasing Premium Motor Spirit, diesel, and others into the Nigerian market.

The Port Harcourt Refinery would be the second petrol-producing refinery after the Dangote Refinery commenced PMS production in September.

It is one of the three owned by the Federal Government and managed by the NNPC.

The refinery, situated in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region, has been in operation since 1965, but later became moribund for several years.

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