The Crude Oil Refiners Association of Nigeria has appealed to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company and the federal government to sell the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries. CORAN Publicity Secretary, Eche Idoko made this call in a recent statement. According to him, the $1.
5 billion spent on the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery would have been used to build and support modular refineries that can help the country address its energy crisis. He said ten additional modular refineries together with Dangote Refinery would end the importation of fuel into Nigeria. Idoko revealed that Nigeria has 15 modular refineries of which 5 are operational without producing Petrol, and others are in various completion stages.
“And if you have 100,000 barrels per day, at least, with the Dangote refinery, you would have solved that problem. We would have enough to begin to export,” he stated. 'Right now, we have about 15 of them – five are operating but not producing PMS; the other 10 are at various stages of completion.
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