According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, plans are underway to collaborate with private firms to manage and maintain its refineries located in Kaduna and Warri.
The refineries are the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).
The NNPC which made this known on Thursday, August 29th through a circular shared via its X handle, said the decision is to ensure reliability and sustainability to meet the nation’s fuel supply and energy security obligations.
The circular read in part; “NNPC Ltd is seeking to engage reputable and credible Operations & Maintenance (O&M) companies to operate and maintain two of its refineries, Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), to ensure reliability and sustainability to meet the nation’s fuel supply and energy security obligations.
“The O&M tender for WRPC and KRPC will be treated as a single tender through a three stage tender process (expression of interest, EOI, technical and commercial) leveraging on all the possible opportunity costs associated with procurement of consumables, personnel/manpower management, utilisation of computerised maintenance management software (CMMS), warehousing management system (WMS) etc”.
The Warri refinery situated at Warri in Delta State was commissioned in 1978, with a nameplate distillation capacity of 6,250,000 MTA (125,000 bpd).
The refinery complex includes a petrochemical plant commissioned in 1988 with production capacities of 13,000 MTA of polypropylene and 18,000 MTA of carbon black.
The refinery is built to supply markets in the south and southwest regions of Nigeria.
On the other hand, the Kaduna refinery was commissioned in 1980 to supply petroleum products to Northern Nigeria with a capacity of 50,000 B/D.
