Retail Outlet Owners Support NNPCL’s Partnership Plan For Port Harcourt Refinery Rehab

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has lauded the radical main enforcement officer, Engr. Bayo Ojulari, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) for initiating the process of reviving the Port Harcourt Refinery done an appraisal of the works for a imaginable backstage steadfast nether the Technical and Equity (T&E) concern model.

The appraisal declaration awarded to UOP, a renowned planetary firm, demonstrates a committedness to making the refinery functional.

The PETROAN expressed appreciation for the determination to prosecute a method spouse to measure the plant’s condition, enabling informed decision-making by imaginable investors.

According to the marketers the improvement marks a important measurement towards restoring the refinery’s operational functionality. Notably, the T&E exemplary has proven effectual astatine the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Bonny facility, and powerfully enactment its adoption for the Port Harcourt Refinery, trusting that it volition bring operational effectiveness and efficiency.

The National President of PETROAN, Dr Billy Gillis-Harry, said the operationalisation of the refinery volition service arsenic a terms cheque mechanism, providinga captious safeguard against immoderate signifier of monopoly successful Nigeria’s downstream sector.

“We judge this volition output indispensable benefits to stakeholders, big communities, retailers, and consumers by promoting competitory pricing and preventing unfair marketplace practices.” helium said.

Dr. Harry besides expressed appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his enactment and imaginativeness successful driving initiatives that volition boost the nation’s system and heighten vigor security.

“We besides convey him for his committedness to infrastructure development, peculiarly the ongoing efforts to hole the Eleme Express Road, a captious way for trucks conveying petroleum products from the refinery.

“We advocator that the refinery revival process beryllium transparent, expedited, and devoid of governmental interference.

“Furthermore, we impulse that reputable overseas companies beryllium fixed just information successful the concern process.

“We look guardant to the palmy completion of this inaugural and judge it volition boost the section system and heighten petroleum merchandise availability.” helium added.