•Nude women protest Women from the Alesa community in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State today embarked on a nude protest over the controversial Memorandum of Understanding recently signed between the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited and two Chinese firms for the rehabilitation and operation of the Port Harcourt Refining Com...
•Festus Osifo and Port Harcourt Refinery The President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Festus Osifo, says the old Port Harcourt refinery has been rehabilitated to about 90 per cent and can be brought back into operation within one week, if the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL)...
•Port Harcourt Refinery The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has officially ruled out the sale of the Port Harcourt Refining Company, reaffirming its commitment to completing high-grade rehabilitation and retention of the plant. The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of NNPC Limited, Bashir Ojulari, announced this during a...
•Port Harcourt refinery The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has announced a scheduled maintenance shutdown of the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC), set to begin on May 24, 2025. In a statement released today by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Femi Soneye, the NNPC said the shutdown is part of a planned m...
•Obasanjo The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has extended an invitation to former President Olusegun Obasanjo for a tour of the Port Harcourt Refinery to verify its operational status. This development follows Obasanjo’s recent interview with Channels Television, where he cited advice from Shell Petroleum Development Compa...
•Oil tankers Less than a month after the Port Harcourt Refining Company appeared to have resumed production, the facility has stopped working. Our correspondent, who visited the refinery on Thursday, December 19, 2024, observed that the lifting of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) had stopped, reports Saturday PUNCH. It was gathered that the lifti...
•PENGASSAN National President, Festus Osifo The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has confirmed that the Port Harcourt refinery, with a production capacity of 60,000 barrels per day, is operational and currently producing various refined petroleum products, including diesel, kerosene, and petrol. This update was pro...
The Port Harcourt Refining Company, PHRC, and Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, are at war over the overloading of products at the refinery. While PHRC accused tanker drivers of being responsible for the low pace of loading of petroleum products at the facility, PTD, through its umbrella body, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas [&hell...
•Port Harcourt Refinery The fanfare that greeted the resumption of activities at the Port Harcourt Refining Company on Tuesday may have melted away leaving the hope and expectations of many Nigerians hanging. A visit by our correspondent to the refinery yesterday revealed that there was no activity on site, as some workers met by our […...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has denied claims by an Alesa community leader in Rivers State that the Port Harcourt refinery is not yet producing fuel. It could be recalled that Timothy Mgbere, said to be a leader of Alesa had appeared on national television yesterday to accuse the NNPCL of lying to Nigerians […]

