The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria
(IPMAN) said the continued shut down of the Port Harcourt refinery has led to
the scarcity of kerosene in Rivers State.
The chairman of IPMAN, Sunny Npe, stated this at a
press briefing in Port Harcourt.
He said its members now depend on imported kerosene for
state consumption.
“At present, the price of kerosene is high because
the refinery is not working and this will affect the lower class of the
society. Once the refinery comes back on stream, automatically, the price of
kerosene and diesel will drop.
In order to beef up the supply of PMS, we are sustaining
supply by detention. And like you know, constant importation is going to have a
huge negative impact on our foreign reserve. Meanwhile the refinery is in top
shape,” Npe said.
He also said that if the illegal activities of
vandals and oil bunkering are curtailed, the Port Harcourt refinery will
produce more than 210, 000 barrels of crude oil per day.
“The allocated crude oil to the refinery cannot get
to the refinery. At present the refinery is outrunning almost 60% installed
capacity and after turn around maintenance, we expect it to go to a full production
capacity of over 210,000 barrels of crude oil per day. That is substantially massive
production that is going to take care of marketers, the consuming public and
make life easy for the ordinary man,” he finished.
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