Port Harcourt Refinery Operational, Trucking Out Products Daily, Facility’s Managing Director Denies Production Halt Allegation
The Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited (PHRC), Ibrahim Onoja yesterday dismissed an allegation that production at the refinery was halted after it was inaugurated Tuesday last week.
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mele Kyari, had flagged off the rehabilitated plant at the Area 5 terminal of the refinery, with the national oil company saying that about 200 trucks would be loading out from the plant on a daily basis.
However, the joy that accompanied the event appeared to have been short-lived when some individuals and groups started insinuating that supply at the plant had been halted and the facility shutdown, alleging that the resumption of activities was staged-managed.
But during a tour of the facility alongside journalists in Eleme, Rivers State, Onoja explained that “the plant is running and trucking out products”.
Also, the Terminal Manager at the Port Harcourt depot, Molokwuu Joel, told journalists that activities were going on at the facility, stressing that in less than 15 minutes, the loading bay was able to truck out three 45,000-litre tankers.
