NNPC to Modernise Nigeria’s Biggest Refinery

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to upgrade and expand its Port Harcourt oil refinery.

Port Harcourt is Nigeria’s biggest refinery with a processing capacity of 210,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd).

NNPC group managing director Austen Oniwon told Bloomberg that the firm is looking to the original contractors, who built the refinery, for the modernisation project.

The two units of the Port Harcourt refinery were built by France’s Spibat and Japan Gasoline.

The refinery, comprising a 60,000bpsd unit and a 150,000bpsd unit, produces petroleum products including liquefied petroleum gas, premium motor spirit, kerosene (aviation and domestic) and automotive gas oil.