The Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company, WRPC, with a capacity of 125,000 barrels per day, bpd, has officially resumed operations.
Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, announced this during a facility tour on Monday.
This development follows the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery in Rivers State, which was completed just a month earlier.
During the tour, Kyari addressed the team, stating, “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.”
Situated in Ekpan, Uwvie, and Ubeji in Warri, the petrochemical plant produces 13,000 metric tonnes per annum, MTA, of polypropylene and 18,000 MTA of carbon black.
Commissioned in 1978 and operated by NNPCL, the Warri Refinery was designed to serve markets in Nigeria’s southern and southwestern regions.
According to NNPCL spokesperson Olufemi Soneye, the mechanical completion of the facility was initially set for the first quarter of 2024.
“Warri should be done by first quarter of 2024,” Soneye had stated.
The refinery is one of Nigeria’s four refineries, which also include the old and new Port Harcourt Refining Company in Rivers State and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company in Kaduna State.
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