The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday stated that it had shut down the Warri refinery, due to some technical issues surrounding its operation.
Chief operating officer, Refineries, NNPC, Mr. Anibor Kragha, disclosed while speaking at the Nigerian Oil & Gas Conference & International Exhibition holding in Abuja.
He stated that only the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries are working, stessing both refineries are currently operating below their installed capacity.
He stayed that the two refineries are producing about five million litres of Automotive Gasoline Oil, AGO, as well as Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, and Household Kerosene, HHK.
He stated that in January 2017, all the four refineries were working, until a few days ago, when the Warri refinery was shut down due to some technical faults.
Speaking on the current position of the refineries he said, “The only refinery that is having some issues is the one in Warri, because we have a bit of a power challenge and we are working very hard with General Electric, (GE), to address that. But in January all of them were working. The whole Port Harcourt refinery has come on stream and they are running well.”
“Meanwhile the Warri refinery had also started running but there is something with the gas turbine generators that tripped, so it was shut down to make sure we address that, but as you know you cannot start up the equipment without having negative things happen.”
“We have gas turbine generations in Warri and they shift. We have GE on site to correct it. It is not an efficiency thing. All the units were running — Crude Distillation Unit, CDU, Fluid Catalytic Converter, FCC, and they were running in Warri and then we have this trip and said we are going to shut down to address it properly.”
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