{"id":3552,"date":"2024-11-30T06:23:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2024-11-30T06:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T06:23:22","slug":"why-port-harcourt-refinery-shut-down-three-days-after-resumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/why-port-harcourt-refinery-shut-down-three-days-after-resumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Port Harcourt Refinery shut down three days after resumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3553\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot_20241130-072040-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot_20241130-072040-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot_20241130-072040.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Amah<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Barely three days after the resumption of activities at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, the refinery has abruptly shut down operations, Politics Nigeria reports.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that as of Friday, there was no activity on the site, with some workers claiming that the refinery was undergoing calibration, which might last till next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Harcourt Refinery has faced numerous delays and missed deadlines to resume operations. However, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, inaugurated the new plant at the Area 5 terminal of the refinery on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It was claimed that 200 petrol trucks were loading daily from the plant. However, the announcement was met with scepticism as reports circulated that the trucks were loaded with old products in the storage tanks.<\/p>\n<p>At the Port Harcourt Refinery Area 5, it was observed that there were no signs of activity. An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed that the loaded trucks contained \u201cdead stock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the \u201cdead stock\u201d included Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), and Automated Gas Oil (diesel) left in the tanks before the refinery was shut down between 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The official noted that the large quantity of refined petrol was \u201coff-spec\u201d, requiring separation from water to obtain the main product in preferred colours.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the refinery was not operating electronically, as refineries worldwide should, but rather manually, which cannot match the new digital pumps.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, rather than more trucks coming into the refinery, the number of trucks has dwindled. It was observed that most workers and drivers appeared idle, with no machinery operational.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the lack of loading activity, a worker in overalls said, \u201cThey are de-watering, removing the water under the PMS. Maybe there will be loading after that, but we don\u2019t know what time today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another worker at the loading bay mentioned that ongoing calibration was the reason for the delay. \u201cThey are calibrating the meters,\u201d he said tersely.<\/p>\n<p>A source indicated that calibration would continue until Monday, with the loading of DPK (kerosene) and AGO (diesel) expected to start by then.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amah Kindly share: Barely three days after the resumption of activities at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, the refinery&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,294,2],"tags":[923],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-economy","category-entertainment-showbiz","category-news","tag-port-harcourt-refinery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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