There are plans by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to establish a 100,000-barrels-per-day brownfield refinery each in Port-Harcourt and Warri.
Already, a group of investors had commenced the process of relocating a refinery formerly owned by BP from Turkey to Nigeria.
It will be installed near the Port Harcourt Refinery under the NNPC refinery collocation initiative.
NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, made these known in a statement he issued.
He stated that the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, made the disclosure in an interview published in NNPC’s in-house newsletter, NNPC News.
NNPC News is a monthly publication.
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Said Baru: “Our collocation initiative aimed at getting private sector investors to bring in brownfield refineries so that they can share facilities is also yielding results.
“For example, there is one that is going to be brought in from Turkey to be located near the Port-Harcourt Refinery. It’s not a modular refinery; it’s a normal refinery with about 100,00bpd capacity. It was owned by BP, but it has been sold off now to the companies that want to bring it over from Turkey to install it here.”
He stated too that “There is another one of about the same size being looked at to be sited near the Warri Refinery.”
He said however that the one for Port-Harcourt was at a more advance stage.
According to him, “Our drive at the NNPC, as a leader in the industry, is to expand our local refining capacity and make Nigeria a global refining hub.”
