Nigeria’s Refineries To Meet Local Consumption Soon, Says Kachikwu

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, said that, with increased crude oil refining activity in the country, Nigeria’s refineries would soon meet local consumption of petroleum products....

He stated this in Benin City at the 2015 NNPC Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) themed HSE best practice, pathway to business sustainability.

Represented by the Managing Director, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), Egr. Abubakar Mai-Borno, Kachikwu said safety in the work place is vital for productivity in the sector.

According to him, “It is with great optimism that we are foreseeing our refineries soon coming back on-stream. Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC), for instance, has demonstrated great drive in meeting the federal government’s desire for refineries; whence our crude will be processed in order to meet immediate domestic demand.

While a lot of efforts are still on-going towards attaining this desire, appropriate safety practice and safety observance must be entrenched.”

He added that “through recent programmes and initiatives that promote and drive HSE awareness, observance and operational safety conformance corporate wide, the NNPC will transform and modernise its health, safety and environment management standards and performance records.”