The Bureau of Public Enterprises had reported that the Warri refinery had never achieved full capacity utilisation, and after years of decline and shutdown in 2015 due to disrepair and crude shortages, many dismissed the government’s pledge to revamp it as political rhetoric.
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Today, the Warri Refinery returned to operation weeks after NNPC Limited restarted the 60,000 Barrels per day at the Port Harcourt Refinery in November.
The resolution was sequel to the adoption of a motion by Ben Igbakpa (PDP-Delta) at plenary on Wednesday.
A group, which styled itself as Ijaw oil producing and pipeline communities in Warri, Delta State, on Tuesday threatened to cripple the piping of crude from their communities over the recent retrenchment of some of its indigenes
A statement issued by the Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Corporation, Tumini Green, explained that the fire, which started around 11am, was successfully extinguished without any fatality