After roughly six delays, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited-run refinery in Rivers State, Port Harcourt Refining Company, has once again been unable to start up.
It was noted that the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and NNPC have repeatedly broken their commitments to Nigerians on the refinery.
Nigerians have been promised numerous dates by NNPC, the company in charge of all government refineries, since December 2023. The assurance was that refined products would be sold by the refinery shortly.
The NNPC’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, declared unequivocally in July that the refinery would start up in early August.
The same Kyari declared in 2019 that before the former president Muhammadu Buhari’s term ended, the NNPC will deliver all four of the nation’s refineries.