The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited(NNPCL) on Monday announced the resumption of crude oil processing at the 125,000-barrel-per-day Warri Refining & Petrochemicals Company in Warri, Delta State.
The Daily Crucible reports that this came barely a month after the 60,000-barrel-per-day-old Port Harcourt Refinery bounced back to operations.
Sited Ekpan, Uwvie, and Ubeji, Warri corridors of Delta State, the petrochemical plant was installed to produce 13,000 metric tonnes per annum (MTA) of polypropylene and 18,000 MTA of carbon black.
Commissioned in 1978 during the administration of General Olusegun Obasanjo as Head of States and managed by NNPCL, the WRPC was built to cater for the southern and southwestern markets in Nigeria.
The NNPCL Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, disclosed the resumed operations during a tour of the facility earlier today.
A trending video showed Kyari and a touring team, including the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Farouk Ahmed.
The video which was posted by Channels TV also revealed Kyari addressing the team and could be heard saying the inspection aimed to show Nigerians the level of work done so far on the facility.
He explained that though the repairs on the facility have not yet been fully completed but operations have commenced.
He said, “We are taking you through our plant. This plant is running. Although it is not 100 per cent complete, we are still in the process. Many people think these things are not real. They think real things are not possible in this country. We want you to see that this is real.”
