AGIP TO BUILD 150,000 BARRELS CAPACITY REFINERY WITH $15 BILLION IN PORT HARCOURT

May 9, 2017 AdminLeave a comment

A multi-national oil company, Agip has concluded plan to build a brand new refinery of 150,000 barrels capacity in Port Harcourt.

The total cost of the project is placed at $15 billion.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu made the disclosure to State House correspondents at the end of a meeting between Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Agip management team and himself at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.

According to the Minister, the refinery when completed would increase local production output and help Nigeria to realize the objective of producing every refined product in accordance with 2019 timeline.

He said: “We just finished a meeting with the Acting president and Agip. In the meeting, we dealt with the issue of Agip investment in Zabazaba field and their cooperation with us in the repairs of Port Harcourt refinery.

“We reviewed following my meeting with Agip, we reached an agreement that Agip will build a brand new refinery of 150,000barrels capacity which will be located in Port Harcourt or Brass. They have accepted and preparing an MOU along this line.

“The effect of this is that oil companies operating in Nigeria will begin to migrate from only exporting crude and begin to look on how to start refining these crude so that we will be able to meet our local consumption.

“With this new refinery and along with other things we are going to do with the refinery in Port harcourt gives us hope in our quest to try and increase our local capacity to produce every refine product we need in the country and to meet the time line of 2019.

“We are now going ahead to work out the modality with Agip. I am also calling on other multi nationals to see what they can do along this line.

“In the area of power, Agip has second largest plant which will be on stream by 2020. This is to make sure they are not only just taking away crude but making other local investment. Total investment in area of power and the refinery from Agip is in excess of 15billion dollars.”

Source: Vanguardngr.com

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