The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru has said that the country’s refineries had not undergone Turn Around Maintenance(TAM) for an aggregate of 42 years.
He said that in spite of this hindrance, a lot of rehabilitation works were happening in all the three refineries.
He noted that the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, had its Distribution Control System (DCS) successfully upgraded while the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) had major interventions in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, (FCCU) and Power Plant Unit (PPU) fixed.
He added that Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) was undergoing major repairs of its FCCU, Catalytic Reforming Unit (CRU) and Crude Distillation Unit 2 (CDU2).
According to him, work has gone into getting the original builders of the refineries to carry out TAM on them after receiving favourable private funding for the exercise.
On the downstream sector, he said that although 2018 was full of some supply shortages, he was pleased that the corporation rose to the occasion with the support of President Muhammadu Buhari and the hardoworking NNPC staff members.
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