Oil marketers in Nigeria are targeting to begin lifting Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from the 125,000 barrels per day Warri Refinery by February 2025. This comes as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria confirmed that its members have started lifting automotive gas oil (diesel) and kerosene. The refinery is currently partially operational, producing diesel and kerosene, with hopes to include cooking gas, PMS, and other products in the coming months.
Oil marketers target to start lifting Premium Motor Spirit from the 125,000 barrels per day Warri Refinery by February 2025. This comes as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria confirmed that its members have started lifting automotive gas oil and kerosene. Chairman, Delta State chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria , Harry Okenini, disclosed this in his remarks on the functionality of the refinery at the weekend.
Similarly, the National Chairman of the Surface Tank and Kerosene Peddlers, a branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Israel Omokere, stated that the refinery was in operation. 'Hopefully the PMS will come on board. We are loading kerosene and AGO for now.” DAILY POST reports that on December 30, 2024, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, announced that Warri Refinery has commenced operation.
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